From: Anatoly Vorobey (mellon_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 24 Aug 2004 - 13:07:21 IDT
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:29:51AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I'll explain. The GPL expressly forbids you to create any derived work
> that is not GPL itself.
[some nitpicking follows]
The work cannot "be" GPL; it must be licensed under the terms of the
GPL, but this license doesn't have to be exclusive.
You're free to license your derived work under any license you want,
restrictive as it may be, as long as you *also* license it under the
terms of the GPL. That is not an academic distinction; quite a few companies
make their living upon it (offering various products under commercial
licenses as well as the GPL, with the commercial license offering
additional benefits for the client).
Additionally, you're free to *create* a derived work and not offer it to
anyone under the GPL, as long as you're not publishing it under a
different license. That's also not an academic distinction; it applies to
all software developed for in-house use.
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