Dual-Licensing Situation

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Il giorno gio, 05/06/2008 alle 16.08 -0400, AR ha scritto:
> Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > AR wrote:
> >   
> >> I'm looking at a situation where someone has released some code under 
> >> both GPLv2 and a proprietary license.  I'm being told this:  If you 
> >> develop (and do not distribute) code using our GPL code, you cannot then 
> >> get a proprietary license for your code.  That is, if I merely *use* 
> >> their GPL code, I forfeit the right to buy a proprietary license.  Isn't 
> >> that a further restriction placed upon my code by them, and therefore a 
> >> violation of the GPL?
> >>     
> >
> > I don't see how. You don't lose any rights granted to you by
> > the GPL.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  Yes I do lose rights, so let me try a different 
> viewpoint:

IHMO you don't lose any rights. This is like saying "I sell motorcycles
and I'll sell them to anybody except people that already own a car". I
am just stating how I'll behave as a vendor but I don't reduce in any
way your right to own a car. Yes, they are trying some mental trick on
you to force you to get a proprietary license right now, but they are
not limiting your rights in any way.

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Federico Di Gregorio                         http://people.initd.org/fog
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