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I believe with a BSD licence you could pay royalties for the license and keep distributing under the BSD license. The GPL clause doesn't allow you to do this.
by dave1010uk 13y ago
I believe with a BSD licence you could pay royalties for the license and keep distributing under the BSD license. The GPL clause doesn't allow you to do this.
- fosap 13y agoI'm sure you can do that for GPL software aswell, and i don't see witch part of that clause forbids it.
- belorn 13y agoThe argument seems to be as following: You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD. GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.