Copyright and License

[Francis Glassborow]

In article <8feepm$csg$3 at newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, Bernhard
Reiter <breiter at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> writes
>I justed wanted to explain why the GPL is so popular. And what the
>differences to other licenses are.

However, note that there is nothing that prevents the copyright holders
from negotiating a commercial licence as well (though that is more
complicated where the commercial organisation wants to use heavily
derived code with many contributors.

Now perhaps we should be negotiating with industry to release all their
patents in exchange for a release to use GPL software ;-)
 

Francis Glassborow      Association of C & C++ Users
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