Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Professional license

[Barry <we...@i1...>]

Nathan Kurz wrote:

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>This agrees with my interpretation and with Joe's (ownership caveats
>aside), but unless I'm misinterpreting you I think it contradicts what
>you are saying.  Am I somehow misinterpreting what you are saying?
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Yes, that is part of the picture, but not all of it.

The important point is that a program once GPL'd is always GPL'd.

Nowhere on the fsf site does it say:
- gpl can be revoked except by no longer distributing the program at all 
(but others are free to continue to do so)
- a dual license could be attached to code that is already GPL'd that is 
not compatible with GPL to the extent that some of the code is FPL'd and 
some of it (perhaps on separate code branched?) is not.

It is the latter that is what I believe Joe and Jamie are proposing in 
their words and deeds.

However I do not believe it is what they are proposing in their hearts. 
IN their hearts, they just want to be paid for their work, which is fair 
and allowed under the GPL.

I think they need to dig a little deeper into the available material 
(google "gpl dual license" for example) to find the way out of this 
little maze.

They are correct that others have found their way out of the maze 
before. They are incorrect that the way others have done so is the way 
they are suggesting they want to do.

Best,

Barry

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