Z80 Emulation Engine

via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 22 07:10:45 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 01:17:46 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> If something's open source with no commercial intent, is there 
> good
> reason not to use gpl?

Nothing in GPL prevents commercial use, and it doesn't limit your 
ability to issue other licenses later. It does not limit the 
author, only the user.

But you have to make sure that all patches you receive are 
followed by a written statements where the ownership is 
transferred to you. The patches makes it a derived work, and then 
you need all the authors of that derived work to agree on an 
additional license.

> How hard is it to change later?

You cannot revoke GPL for released code, but you can stop 
releasing new versions under GPL.


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