On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jonathan G. Lampe wrote:
... On a public mailing list ...
> Second, I wonder what commercial arrangements you might like to make
> between yourself and our company. Although the GNU license would seem to
> prohibit you from selling us any exclusive rights to lftp or even copies of
> the software itself, we would likely be interested in employing your
> services as a paid consultant and/or to put mention of our company as a
> commercial supporter of your product on your web site.
The copyright holder has the final say on what the terms of the
copyright are. This includes the right to sell/release different
versions under different copyright restrictions despite anything
the GNU copyright might say.
Note, however, if a single version is release under two different
copyrights the user has the defacto right to choose which they
use and if two versions are very similar (eg bugfixes only) they
could quite reasonably be considered to be the same.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
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