dual-licensing question
I was hoping to get a
clarification on the implications of dual licensing. Many developers are under
the impression that with dual-licensed software you can choose which license's
terms you abide by. Some contend that when redistributing a project released
under, for instance, BSD and LGPL licenses, one must abide by the terms of both
licenses. Noah Slater asked me to bring this up with debian-legal as this is
where he first learned of this latter viewpoint. Can someone more knowledgeable than
myself speak to the actual implications of dual-licensing? Are there any
restrictions placed on users redistributing software that was dual-licensed, or
is dual-licensing specifically to address license compatibility (like GPLv2/ASF)
and market segregation issues as wikipedia suggests?
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