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Jim Henderson wrote:
| But I don't know that the GPL overrides anything that the original
author
| permits - you can do plenty as long as you ask for permission.  I
would
| be surprised if a court anywhere upheld that the author of a piece of
| software released under the GPL couldn't dual-license it (for
example -
| and that's already done, just look at MySQL for an example of that
type
| of arrangement).
|
	The issue here isn't what the *original* author can do. The problem
arises when somebody wants to reuse parts of the original code. The
sequence of events goes like this:
~ - You write some code and license it under the GPL;
~ - I take your code (or part of it), write some more code that
interfaces with yours and want to distribute it. Then I can't choose
the license under which I distribute *my* code. The GPL has taken a
fundamental freedom from me, just because I interface with some code
that is GPLed. Therefore I don't regard the GPL as "free" (on the
other hand, I do regard the LGPL as "free": it ensures that the
LGPLed code will remain available while not restricting my freedom
to write and distribute code that interfaces with it).

		Jerome
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