On 23 Jan 2001 21:21:12 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
BTW - I did have a look for examples of dual licensing. GPL & Artistic seems to be *the* major 'dual license' example. I couldn't find a *single* example of a dual scheme where one partner wasn't the GPL - does anyone know of any examples??
Some drivers in the Linux kernel are BSD or GPL: e.g. drivers/char/random.c
Part of the Mozilla code is dual licensed: The Javascript interpreter and (iirc) the new mail subsystem.
Yes ;) I was trying to think of examples where GPL *wasn't* involved: like MPL & Artistic, or something like that. I've not been able to find / think of any dual-licenced software that doesn't involve the GPL. A lot of people seem to choose to dual-license to allow those writing free, but non-GPL software, (such as the BSDers) the right to use the code also - I can't find any examples of other dual-license systems.
Just strikes me as odd :)
Cheers,
Alex.