Dual licensing

[John Cowan]

Marius Amado Alves scripsit:

> Why are the other conditions e.g. the requirement to distribute under 
> the same license (GPL) not considered "restrictions"?

In addition to the reasons mentioned by others, there is also the fact
that the GPL, BSD, Artistic, and MIT licenses are *prior* to the OSD
(and its earlier version the Debian Free Software Guidelines).  If the
OSD says that one of those licenses is not free/open source, so much
the worse for the OSD, and it will need to be changed or clarified.
So far this hasn't been seriously needed.

You can never entirely trap a slippery reality in a net of words.

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lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
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