Fwd: [gnu.org #138032] Dual, triple and n-licensing

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> From: "[email protected] via RT" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat Dec 13, 2003  9:37:20  AM Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gnu.org #138032] Dual, triple and n-licensing
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:35, Low Zhen Lin via RT wrote:
>> I am in a state of confusion over more-than-single-licensing.
>>
>> Do the various licences have to be compatible with each other?
>
> No.
>
>> Do the
>> various licences have effect simultaneously?
>
> No -- dual licensing is disjunctive.
>
>>  If not, can the users of
>> the code decide to change which terms the code they want to use it
>> under at their discretion?
>
> Yes.
>
>> The MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license of Mozilla is what I'm interested in.
>> Clearly, the MPL and GPL are incompatible... What is happening in this
>> case? Do the users of the program have the rights granted by all 
>> three,
>> at once, or only one? Are they subject to the restrictions placed by
>> all three, at once, or only one? Which takes precedence, the rights
>> given or the restrictions placed?
>
> You can choose which license(s) you want to follow.  You have to follow
> at least one.  But it's easy to follow all of them at once -- just
> release all your source code.  Multiple licensing offers more options
> than single licensing.
>
> -- 
> -Dave Turner
> GPL Compliance Engineer
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