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| From | Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Any software law experts? |
| Date | 2022-11-09 14:50 -0500 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
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On 11/9/2022 2:42 PM, e.d.pro...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 2:34:18 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> If you write some brilliant software, then you can >> sell it to me on commercial terms for 100 dollars >> and give it to your neighbor on an open source license. >> >> That open source license gives your neighbor the right >> to give his brother a copy under the same license. >> But because he does not own copyright, then he >> can not pass it on under another license. That >> privilege would be yours as copyright owner. > I see, so them publishing their software with a license doesn't mean that software is tied to that license. Correct. The copyright owner can issue whatever license he/she wants. Some open source projects require contributors to sign over copyright to the project. That makes it a lot easier to change the open source license for the project. Instead of having every contributor to agree on relicensing then the project can do it. > So if you get itext for free, you use the latest version under the > AGPL license. If you pay for it, you get some other custom license > that says you can use the code in closed source, and can't share it > with anyone else, and have to keep paying annually to renew. I assume that would be a standard commercial license like the one you get when you buy MS Office from Microsoft or Oracle DB from Oracle. Arne
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Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-08 19:32 -0500
Re: Any software law experts? "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2022-11-09 04:21 -0800
Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-09 14:38 -0500
Re: Any software law experts? "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2022-11-09 11:51 -0800
Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-09 16:12 -0500
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Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-09 14:34 -0500
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Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-09 14:50 -0500
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Re: Any software law experts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-11-09 20:21 -0500
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