Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:17:12 +0200


Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
>
> Jeff> If it really matters to you, you can always dual-license the
> Jeff> code, and let downstream developers pick which license they find
> Jeff> most suitable.
>
> Thats actually a bad approach IMHO, I would be willing to dual license
> certain bits of code. However, when doing so I would also put a strong
> encouragement statement in the code suggesting people to also dual
> license their changes.

There's not much point dual licensing with BSD and GPL. It's equivalent
to the BSD license alone, so why be confusing about it?

Dual licensing makes sense when the two licenses are otherwise
incompatible. E.g. GPL and MPL. Technically, neither of those licenses
permits most people to redistribute the resulting work under a dual
license. So ongoing work on that kind of dual licensed work is arguably
not permitted at all, unless you go through the original authors.

ObKernel: the pcmcia subsystem is dual licensed under GPL and MPL.

-- Jamie

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