Re: bsd license question

[Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:47:26 +0800
Jeffrey Lim <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote:

:On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:33:58 -0500, Adam <suck@my-balls.com> wrote:
:> 
:> The same place it would be if someone bought out a GPL project.
:> There is no difference, if you write some awesome GPL software, I can pay
:> you to develop it for me as a closed source project.
:
:i'm not so sure that is correct, actually - unless u're talking about
:a Re-implementation of the project. Surely the GPL forces derivations
:to be GPL-based as well? Or does this restriction not apply for the
:copyright owners (i think this should be true, but somebody check me
:on this)?

The GPL does not damage the ability of the copyright owners to redistribute
under a different license.  Look at Mozilla, and MySQL.

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