On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 18:10, Guillaume Ponce wrote:
In fact, there is a difference: with this free *and copyleft* / proprietary dual licencing you have to pay to have the power to deny other people de freedoms you received. With a non-copyleft free software licence, it's gratis to do so.
I don't like the idea of reducing freedom. And I don't like the idea of paying to have the power to do so...
It's wrong to say that they are reducing freedom.
If you make a change you are not obliged to dual license it.
MandrakeSoft will simply not be entitled to use your modification in their non-GPL license.
You may not like dual-licensing but let not say false things, please.
Simo.