Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
- Subject: Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
- From: Tom Davie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:24:44 +0100
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Jeremy Pereira <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 4 Nov 2009, at 21:20, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 31, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote:
>>
>> I'm actually fairly flexible on giving custom
>>> license (say BSD or LGPL) to project owners who contact me. However,
>>> depending on the case, I would ask for no compensation (say for a
>>> freeware
>>> or small shareware) or some reasonable compensation (for a *real*
>>> commercial
>>> product).
>>>
>>
>> I don't think you can give a custom license for the use of your library an
>> open-source library (otherwise anyone using that other library would inherit
>> the custom license, bypassing the GPL.)
>>
>
> Provided he owns the copyright on all of the code, he can distribute it
> under any licence or combination of licences he likes. The licence(s) don't
> apply to him, they apply to the people he distributes the code to.
That doesn't change the fact that if he licenses as BSD to one person, that
one person can relicense as BSD to *everyone*, and his GPL/paid licenses can
be forgotten.
Bob
>
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden