[linux-elitists] How is it possible to have a dual licensed Linux Distro.

[Ben Finney]

On 31-Aug-2007, James Sparenberg wrote:
> The first line in this article -- 
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3953873333.html is "A company 
> maintaining a dual-licensed Linux distribution for x86-based routers 
> ....."  and frankly to my puny mind seems like a big no no.  However 
> I could be wrong.

Any work of creative expression recognised under copyright law 
autmoatically has a copyright holder. A GNU/Linux distribution, if it 
involves such creative expression, can thus be licensed as a whole by  
its copyright holder, and can even be dual-licensed, as with any other 
work.

Of course, such a distribution would be a derived work of all the 
parts that comprise it, and any license granted for the distribution 
would need to be compatible with all the licenses on the contributed 
parts.

HTH, IANAL, TINLA, AYBABTU.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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