Re: Licenses for Dummies
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:26:58AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Specifically, this is for swish-e, which is a search engine. The swish-e source is built
> into a C library, and also into a binary program "swish-e" that is a small front-end to the
> library. Currently it's all GPL.
>
> People have been asking for different licensing -- I guess they want to include a search
> engine in their proprietary products. For some it's just a matter of providing a search to
> their included documentation. For others it's perhaps more integrated with their product.
Provided that you own the copyright on swish-e (i.e., you either
wrote it entirely yourself or had all other contributors assign the
copyright on their contributions to you), you can offer it to these
people under other license terms if you wish without affecting the
license status of the freely-available GPL version of the code.
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