Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
- Subject: Re: PolKit for Leopard and later
- From: Pierre-Olivier Latour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:21:18 +0900
>
> >> 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.
>
You are all most certainly right, I did speak too fast, BSD or LGPL wouldn't
work because it would create an obvious "hole" in the GPL license. What I
really meant (and what I did with the projects which have licensed PolKit)
is to craft a custom license. I don't know if there's a standard one for
something like: "you can do whatever you want with the code, except
re-licensing it / providing it to a third-party".
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