Question on Dual-Licensing Some Code for Phobos

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Dec 2 01:44:08 UTC 2017


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.


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