Question on Dual-Licensing Some Code for Phobos

Shachar Shemesh shachar at weka.io
Sun Dec 3 07:54:02 UTC 2017


On 02/12/17 03:44, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/1/2017 2:57 PM, ketmar wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> You cannot add/change the license of software without permission from 
>>> the copyright holder. Translating the code from one language to 
>>> another does not erase the copyright - it's still a derived work.
>>
>> but you still can add another license to source code translation, if 
>> that new license doesn't violate the original one. like, you can 
>> distribute some source code port under GPL if the original was covered 
>> by BSDL, so the port is covered by two licenses *simultaneously* now 
>> (i.e. a user must obey both).
> 
> Any added license only applies to what you added that was new.

True, but there is no requirement to make the original work available 
and/or distinguishable.


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