Copyright and License

[Bernhard Reiter]

In article <6PNrfgBp7sG5EwLW at robinton.demon.co.uk>,
	Francis Glassborow <francis at robinton.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In article <8feepm$csg$3 at newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, Bernhard
> Reiter <breiter at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> writes
>>I justed wanted to explain why the GPL is so popular. And what the
>>differences to other licenses are.
> 
> However, note that there is nothing that prevents the copyright holders
> from negotiating a commercial licence as well (though that is more
> complicated where the commercial organisation wants to use heavily
> derived code with many contributors.
> 
> Now perhaps we should be negotiating with industry to release all their
> patents in exchange for a release to use GPL software ;-)

This idea was seriously discussion on gnu.misc.discuss a while ago I
think. :)

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