Picking a license

[Ed Keith]

--- On Thu, 5/13/10, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:45 PM
> On May 13, 10:06 pm, Lawrence
> D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> > In message <mailman.141.1273767256.32709.python-l... at python.org>,
> Ed Keith
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Assertion I:
> > >    If person A is free to do more than person
> B, then person A has
> > >    more freedom then person B.
> >
> > > Assertion II:
> > >    If person A is free do perform an action
> person B is not free to
> > >    perform then person A is free to do more
> than person B.
> >
> > > Assertion III:
> > >   If person B is restricted in some way that
> person A is not them Person A
> > >   is free to do something Person B is not free
> to do.
> >
> > > Conclusion:
> > >   If person B is more resticted than Peston A,
> Person A has mor freedom
> > >   than person B.
> >
> > > Which step in this reasoning do you disagree
> with?
> >
> > Under the GPL, everybody has exactly the same
> freedoms. So which of your
> > assertions is supposedly a criticism of the GPL?
> 
> That's absolutely not true.  For a start, the original
> author can dual-
> license.  This is not a theoretical issue -- it is a
> multi-million
> dollar issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Pat
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 

Everyone I personally know who has released code under the GPL either dual-licenses, or hopes to.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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