RE: [Fsfe-uk] Accounts

[Robert \(Jamie\) Munro]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Robin Green
> Sent: 10 June 2003 03:37
> To: Ciaran O'Riordan
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Accounts
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:16:37AM +0100, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:17:44AM +0100, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
> > > Where can one find good docs on dual licensing?
> >
> > I don't know of any dual licensing docs, it's not that big
> > a subject.  Dual licensing is just offering two licenses and
> > letting the user decide which one to be bound by.
>
> With ANY dual licensing scheme it's essential to ensure that all
> contributions
> (long enough to be copyrightable - i.e. a one line change doesn't count)
> are licensed under both licenses. (If one of the licenses is
> Apache license and
> the other is GPL, then at least if someone sends in a patch under
> the Apache
> license then you can convert it to GPL+Apache because there's
> nothing in the
> Apache license preventing you - but the reverse does NOT follow!)

Many projects ask you to donate all rights to your code to the project
maintainers, usually on a non-exclusive basis, so they can change the
license in future, and not have to work out who on earth wrote which bits,
and contact them all to make sure they all approve of the new license.

Robert Munro