Re: Multiple licences and KAboutData

Alex Merry <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:43:21 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 28 February 2008 15:43:06 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > However, I think multiple licensing is a good thing to allow.  So we can
> > say " this is licensed under both GPLv2 and GPLv3, and you can choose
> > either".
>
> Any idea how this could be presented to the user? The patch I sent to
> kde-core-devel just lists all licenses without any additional explanation
> (see http://frinring.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/aboutokteta.png). No "or"
> mentioned. Is that needed at all?

Dual-licensing typically (ie: pretty much always) means you can use any of the 
licenses you like, as long as you satisfy the conditions.  I think anyone who 
is really interested in the license will realise this.

So I don't think any further explanation is necessary.

Alex


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