Re: [Tcpreplay-users] tcpreplay license

[Peter V. E. <va...@sf...>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:42:45PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> Some people have indicated that they would be more willing to
> contribute to Tcpreplay if the license was changed from it's current 3
> clause BSD to the GPL.  Specifically, people wanted to make sure that
> the enhancements they made could not be "stolen" for use in
> proprietary software.  Another reason I'm considering this, is because
> more and more network related tools are being released under the GPL
> (mostly v2, but I've seen some v3) and I'd like to make it easier for
> other authors and I in this space to share code.
> 
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	Is a dual licence option feasable? Give the user (and the authors) the
choice of a BSD style licence or GPL or both. I'd have to admit I've not
heard of this anywhere, but personally I favor the BSD/Apache/Perl type
licences for mazimum flezability. That way folks that want to restrict to
GPL can and I think it would be up to the end user to make sure their use
is appropriate for all the licences involved (i.e. GPLed code couldn't be
included in something that uses a BSD licence). While I haven't been paying
attention to GPL, I understand that FreeBSD is moving away from GNU (including
GCC!) because of GPL3.

Peter Van Epp