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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 00:57:00
bkuhn@ebb.org
Proprietary relicensing comment.
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@@ -4288,13 +4288,13 @@ discussed earlier in this tutorial, a copyright holder is permitted under
 
copyright law to license a software system under her copyright as many
 
different ways as she likes to as many different parties as she wishes.
 

	
 
Some companies, such as MySQL AB and TrollTech, use this to their
 
Some companies, such as Oracle, use this to their
 
financial advantage with regard to a GPL'd code base. The standard
 
version is available from the company under the terms of the GPL\@.
 
However, parties can purchase separate proprietary software licensing for
 
a fee.
 

	
 
This business model is problematic because it means that the GPL'd code
 
This business model is at best problematic and at worst predatory because it means that the GPL'd code
 
base must be developed in a somewhat monolithic way, because volunteer
 
Free Software developers may be reluctant to assign their copyrights to
 
the company because it will not promise to always and forever license the
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