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- What do you mean by "hypocritical?"Robert Harvey– Robert Harvey2013-12-05 22:07:52 +00:00Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 22:07
- That might not be the best word choice. I wanted to express that it's not okay to tell the "community edition" developers that their contributions MUST be GPL and not adhere to that policy yourself.jmp– jmp2013-12-05 22:12:57 +00:00Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 22:12
- 7They said it better than I could... They own the copyright; they can license it any way they wish.Robert Harvey– Robert Harvey2013-12-05 22:14:04 +00:00Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 22:14
- Related: programmers.stackexchange.com/q/30856/2406.TRiG– TRiG2013-12-05 23:41:37 +00:00Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 23:41
- 2More to the point, if I own the copyright to some work, I can license it to one person with one license and to another person with another license. This assumes I own the actual copyright to that work. If I just have a license to someone else's work (say under GPL) I can only pass it on to others as my license allows. As long as CFEngine is wholly owned by one creator, and doesn't depend on any work they have under GPL from someone else, they are entirely free to offer different licenses to different peopleThe Photon– The Photon2013-12-06 00:35:23 +00:00Commented Dec 6, 2013 at 0:35
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