Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Finney: > As an interesting point, GPLv3 is even better for this: it has a clause > (GPLv3 §7) that explicitly grants the recipient the freedom to ignore > the offending additional restriction, and to strip that restriction from > the terms when they redistribute the work. It's somewhat dou

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-10 Thread Debian/GNU
On 10/09/2015 03:40 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> > - they could dual-license the work under "GPL+exceptions" (to spare >> > their happy audience) and under a "Linux Sampler License" (which would >> > be the same but under a different name) just to clarify. the proposal was to dual-license under (1) a

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-10 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > That much was already clear. It's still not a coherent license, under > either of those conditions, and hence grants no valid license to the > copyright holder. I wrote that incorrectly: it should end with “… no valid license from the copyright holder”. -- \ “The his