GPL, BSD, commercial

[Michele Bosi]

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your reply. Yes "my program" is an original work where I am
the copyright owner, I think for now it is reasonable to assume a
"yes", i.e. I will distribute my program with this dual-licensing
mechanism and since I distribute the sources and not the binaries I
hope I will be fine thanks to the section 5 of the LGPL v2.1
license... the famous last words...

Michele

PS.
Sorry if I have to start a new thread every time I reply but it looks
like either the mailing-list is not properly configured (the
"reply-to" is not set to license-discuss at opensource.org) or gmail gets
mixed up (when I press "reply" instead of replying to the mailing list
gmail replies to the actual user!).

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Wilson, Andrew <andrew.wilson at intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>
>>> Another way to reformulate this last question might be: if I develop a
>>> program which uses a GPL3 library and I release the source code of my
>>> program under the GPL3 license, can I also release/sell closed-source
>>> commercial licenses for the same program to the customers that request
>>> for it in order to develop closed-source programs?
>>
>> Probably not.  If you accept the library under the GPLv3, you can not
>> distribute proprietary derivatives.  That is not the same question. :)
>
> Matt, if "my program" in this context is an original work where Michele is
> the copyright owner and which is not derived from GPL code, then
> I think his question may be about dual licensing of his original code,
> not the (L)GPL libraries. In that case, the answer for dual licensing
> GPL/proprietary of Michele's original code would be "probably yes."
>
> I am not a lawyer.  Michele, you need a real lawyer for
> these questions.
>
> Andy Wilson
> Intel open source technology center
>
>