Re: cdrdao license issues show that cdrtools package is non DFSG, too?

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:26, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:48:31PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > In short (as I understand it), placing software under the GPL with
> > additional restrictions simply doesn't work.
> 
> It does, if you dual-license it.  If you don't, then in general you've
> got software without a license.

Hmm? 

Given the choice of the dual licenses:
   "You can take my software, and use it under the GPL"
 or
   "You can take my software, and use it under something that
    sort of looks like the GPL, but does't allow you to modify
    files foo.c, bar.c, or baz.c in this certain way."
doesn't make too much sense.

Well, legally, maybe it does. But practically, everyone would take the
first license, and just forget the second one.

GPL dual-licensing only works when you want to remove GPL-imposed
restrictions.

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