Re: Need advice for dual licensing
None of the following is legal advice, or should be construed as legal
advice.
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Svante Signell wrote:
> Anybody got a good advice for how to dual license some of the
> software I've developed. I would like to use GPL for non-commercial
> use (e.g. private persons and universities) and a commercial license
> for companies.
First off, he GPL would apply to both non-commercial and commercial
users alike, unless the user(s) had a license that was more
permissive. Furthermore, restricting a license to non-commercial use
only is quite definetly not DFSG Free, so such a work would not be
eligible for inclusion in Debian.
As far as doing a dual license, there's really nothing stoping you
from offering different terms to people who find the GPL problematic
if they're willing to pay, so long as you're the actual copyright
holder. Some authors of GPLed works do this.
As far as the actual text of the licenses/copyright grants, you'll
need to retain professional legal advice if you stray from the
recommended verbiage given in the GPL, as we can't supply it to you.
Don Armstrong
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REAL earnings to the IRS."
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