Re: wine-license digest, Vol 1 #140 - 9 msgs

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> > In fact, in the above scenario it would be the BSD/X11 license that is
> > interfering with the _library developer's_ ability to make a profit off
> > of their code.
> 
> How?  The BSD/X11 license can be integrated with commercial as well as
> GPL code.

I think that was the point.  If a library author places the library under 
the BSD/X11 license, they can't hope to make a profit from selling it to 
proprietary interests, since it can just be appropriated...

Of course, this is why a hybrid model like Sleepycat's works well.

Deven