On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:25:49PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Yes, this is what SUCKS about current copyright law. The presumption is > > "All > > rights reserved unless you have explicit permission". > > Somehow, I doubt you'd say that about a GPL-licensed package with one > author who wants to grant a proprietary license to make money. The only > difference between this situation and that one is that we like the > license change in one of them. :)
I assume you mean "with many authors, one of which wants to ...", and not "with only one author, who wants to ...". I don't think most people find offensive the notion of a sole copyright holder of a GPL- licensed work granting proprietary licenses for a fee. -- Glenn Maynard