On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:16:36PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > The Author who wants to put his changes under a very free license (assuming > > incompatible with GPL) thinks this is not a disservice to the Free Software > > community. But then, he does not colicense it under the GPL. Why? You don't > > give me a good reason for it ("they just don't want to" is no reason for > > me). > > I have one possible solution. I've been thinking on how I could do that > with my code and I'm coming up blank. What would the wording be that will > let me license "foobar" under my own, prefered, license *AND* the GPL?
This is exactly what we mean with colicensing, which I agree is probably the one and only solution to this problem. here is how it is done for perl: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Debian. [... read on in /usr/doc/perl/copyright ... ] thanls, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09