Re: Need advice for dual licensing
Sorry for making inroads to other peoples territories. I just wanted to
know if dual licensing is possible. Obviously is is not possible to
combine GPL and other licences, but why are people talking about it?
I've seen several notes about this on the web: Note that I have not
releasesd any (code or binary whatever) yet, so whatever choice made
about dual licensing is for you to advise on, not me I'm just the
copyright holder so far....
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:15 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> 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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Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>
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