Paul Looney wrote: > In another thread Richard Gaskin wrote: > > "And as a dual-licensed system, LiveCode lets us choose either GPL or > other licenses depending on our goals for the project at hand.” > > How can you legally have a “dual-licensed system” that uses GPL 3 > code, when the GNU General Public License Version 3 states > specifically that it does not permit incorporating GPL programs into > proprietary programs? > > Is not “Commercial”, which is approximately 95% “Community”, also > subject to the terms of the GPL 3, and therefore open source?
The creator of an original work is recognized as its owner, and granted sole authority over how that work may be distributed.
Licenses may differ by licensee. In proprietary software a common example of this is site licenses, where the terms often differ significantly from those in individual licenses.
The owner of a work may grant different terms to anyone. Some pay more, some pay less. Some can copy to multiple machines, others limited to one machine. And some may be granted a right to have access to the source code, and others may choose a different license that doesn't include that right.
The existence of one set of license terms with one customer does not negate the license terms with another customer.
This is equally true regardless whether the distribution of source code is among the terms of a license.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
