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Re: [GNUnet-developers] copyright assignment


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: [GNUnet-developers] copyright assignment
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:37:16 +0100
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> What I mean is that for a stronger copyleft such as AGPL or a
> hypothetical GPLv4, nothing special is needed since the license already
> permits such “upgrades.”  The only thing is doesn’t permit is the other
> direction.

Indeed.

>> For example, I have in the past had cases where people asked for a
>> commercial license for GNU libmicrohttpd, which is already under
>> LGPL. And that commercial license was with the clause that they'd
>> share all the extensions they write under LGPL as well. So this was
>> totally not rational, but the world simply isn't rational.
> 
> Hmm what was the “commercial license” then?  It doesn’t sound very
> rational, indeed.  :-)

It was basically just like the LGPL, but they wanted their own lawyers
to phrase it.  But anyway, in this case the discussion is more how to
get GNUnet to run on iOS...

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