From: Reimer, Fred (Fred.Reimer_at_Eclipsys.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 05:39:25 CEST
Very simple. An author of a software package is not limited in the number
or type of licenses that they decide on for their particular system. So, an
individual has the perfect and unaliable right to license their
"intellectual property" under multiple concurrent licenses. For instance,
say you wrote a program or routine that allowed any person using any package
to communicate with any other person using your system. Would it be fair to
restrict you to licensing your product under different licensing schemes?
Do you honestly believe that Microsoft has a single licensing scheme that
applies for every single one of their customers, regardless of their
relationship with the company? That would be kind of had to believe. At
the same time, it would be hard to expect that independent developers are
limited in their licensing options and had to have a single licensing
agreement with all potential vendors. Think about it! You can have as many
different licensing agreements with as many different companies as you feel
fit. I fail to understand why you believe that a person has to have the
same kind of agreements with all perspective customers. Please explain...
- Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Wouters [mailto:paul_at_xtdnet.nl]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:05 PM
To: Ken Bantoft
Cc: users_at_lists.freeswan.org
Subject: Re: [Users] FreeSwan RPM
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ken Bantoft wrote:
> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); in ipsec_init.c ... is this a stock 2.4.18
> kernel from kernel.org, or a distro supplied kernel?
Eh? How can something be a BSD and a GPL licence?
Paul
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