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> you just also have to offer the complete work to them under the GPL as well The "as well" is where your comment introduces a slight inaccuracy, because it su
by bscphil 5y ago
> you just also have to offer the complete work to them under the GPL as well
The "as well" is where your comment introduces a slight inaccuracy, because it suggests that you could offer the whole work under BSD if you wanted to. You can not. The whole reason that people who prefer permissive licenses do not use GPL code is that they want to be able to license the whole work under a permissive license, in order to be able to provide their licensees with additional freedoms.
- caf 5y agoBy "your work" I mean "everything you have authored". - The parts you've written can continue to be available under the permissive license (as can any parts you've copied from elsewhere under a permissive license); - The GPL code you didn't write can't be re-licensed by you and continues to be available under the GPL; - The complete derived work has to be made available by you under the terms of the GPL. (By "as well" I mean "as well as offering the code you wrote under whatever other license you would like").