OSLib license

[philip at philipnet.com]

Quoting Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk>:

>
> Hi,
>
> Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
>> John Tytgat wrote:
>> > When all copyright holders on OSLib agree, they can re-license OSLib
>> > under a different or even more than one license. I think the answer
>> > could be in dual or tri licensing covering the conflicting goals
>> > Jonathan outlined above.  I'm not aware of any authoritive source of
>> > dual/triple licensing but
>> > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_license> is rather
>> > informative to me.  Perhaps GPL 2 + LGPL 2.1 + MPL 1.1 tri license
>> > like Mozilla/Firefox/ Thunderbird are using ?
>>
>> Multiple licensing sounds like a complicated solution to this problem.
>> What do you think of the MIT licence?
>
> I don't think multiple licenses are complicated, and it lets the
> licensee pick the license most suitable for their purposes and their
> ideals.

Conversely the paradox of choice will ensure that if you give people  
too much choice, they will just stay away.

One of the references on the Wikipedia page above is  
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html#x1-90004 which  
states:
"While there may be cases where it will make sense for a developer  
(with a knowledgeable lawyer?s assistance) to place a dual license on  
his code, we generally recommend that developers not use dual  
licensing if their goal is simply to allow recipients to use the code  
within larger GPL?d works as well as under permissive terms. If such a  
developer is using a license like the modified BSD license or the ISC  
license, where there is an established and widespread community  
understanding that the terms permit incorporation into larger programs  
covered by the GPL, the developer should simply use the permissive  
license without any further reference to the GPL."

Wordy, but the intention is decipherable.

Regards.

Phil L.



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