Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? | From | Rob Love <> | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:58:35 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:59, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> I suggest asking FSF how they play with GPL+another license. > They will tell you GPL can not co-exist, period.
They cannot coexist _at the same time in the same agreement_, but a single work can be licensed out hundreds of times in different ways.
If I hold the copyright on something, I can provide a different license to each licensee of the product if I so choose. That is pretty common, in fact.
The GPL and some-other-license are incompatible in the sense that you cannot put another license on _top_ of the GPL in the _same_ licensing agreement. But you are free to license something in the GPL _or_ BSD _or_ some-evil-EULA, and that is what Linus et al are talking about, and _not_ what the FSF means when they say that some license is incompatible with the GPL.
Robert Love
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