Dual-Licensing Situation

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Il giorno ven, 06/06/2008 alle 09.51 -0400, AR ha scritto:
> I don't think your analogy is an accurate representation of the situation.

What you don't understand is that they are the copyright holders so they
can do what they want. _they_ are not bound by the GPL. They can even
say "hey, you discussed about that on gpl-violations so we won't sell
you the proprietary license" and that would be perfectly fine.

> Scenario 1:
> I am the copyright holder of my code.
> I developed it using the $1000 proprietary license of dual-licensed
> code.
> I release it under the GPL.
> A company approaches me that wants me to dual-license it for
> $5000 to include in their non-free code.
> My code is worth $4000, and I can live off that for a while to
> improve 
> and GPL-release my code.

I kept asking myself why they would do that kind of double-licensing
until I read "Scenario 1". Now, I understand. <g>

federico

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