Re: Economics and the GPL

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:30, Francois Gouget wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Francois Gouget wrote:
> <snip>
> > An alternative is to use the X11 or BSD licenses which let you change
> > the license of the project without requiring copyright assignment.
[...]
> Careful with that statement.  You cannot change the license of any code
> if you do not have the copyright assignment.  You can wrap the code in
> another license, but the original code still has the license applied to
> it.

Agreed.

The result is pretty much the same in terms of what one is allowed to do
(when looking in more details you get the union of the sets of
restrictions imposed by each license), but you are right that this was
an over-simplification.


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