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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On 4 Oct 2024 04:49:06 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:27:33 -0500, chrisv wrote:
> 
>> Even in the FOSS community, people who think like Stallman are a tiny
>> minority.
> 
> If you look at the newer projects you'll see MIT, BSD, Apache, and other
> permissive licenses, not GPL3.  Some have wording like 'if you really
> want to consider it lgpl feel free.' I think Wall was one of the first
> to do that with his Poetic License.

I’m not sure about the legalities of dual-licensing. If you look at 
licences like the GPL, they have wording that says “if you don’t accept 
this licence, then you don’t have permission to use the software”. That 
kind of precludes getting that permission via an alternative licence ...