On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Why? If someone who is contributing to a free software project wants, > for whatever reason, to dual licence their code to Microsoft, you > can't really stop them from doing so. If you insist that all > contributors give an exclusive licence to the organisation running the > project, then you will probably find that this discourages people from > contributing. Usually software authors like to retain their own rights > in the software they produce.
The important thing is for them to have a choice. Most people don't even know about this issue. Education is the solution.
