Re: [Mca2-user] wrong links

[Robert S. <ro...@sc...>]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
> Strange... The GPL allows selling commercial products with GPLed
> software in it, so how can you enforce this?

As long as you are the only copyright holder it is no problem to give
software a dual license and allow people to use it in proprietary products
without releasing their source. Troll Tech does that with Qt as well and
it is no problem. The only thing you have to ensure it that all code which
was given to you by other people under the GPL must always be available in
a GPLed version.

Personally I prefer not to go this way with my software as it makes things
unnecessarily complicated. If people start contributing you have to make a
clean cut between what is under the GPL and what is not (which also splits
up the community of your users, which in turn is a Bad Thing (TM) for free
software in general, IMHO). But this is only my personal way to go (my
customers normally want solutions and don't really care if they are open
source or not)...

Cheerio,
Robert
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