Dual licensing -- other wrinkles

Sam Barnett-Cormack sambc at nights.force9.co.uk
Wed Jun 9 03:49:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, No Spam wrote:

> 3. Suppose at some later stage, I discover another GPL'ed derivative
> of my work in the wild. Does the fact that I have dual license mean
> that if the other author says, "I don't want to submit this code back
> to you under your dual license", I cannot then incorporate his code
> back into my dual licensed code base?

AIUI, no, you cannot, unless you make a seperate version that is *only*
GPL and is not offered under any other licenses - unless *all*
contributors agree to it.

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