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

"Deven T. Corzine" wrote:
> 
> 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

This is what I meant, except that even if a similar library is developed
independently and placed under a BSD/X11 license there is still no way
to make a profit off of the proprietary version of that library.

GREG