GPL question

[John Vetterli]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, E K wrote:
> I see that self contradictory. On one of the term of the GPL is that one 
> can not take away the right of the user on derivative works as well. I think 
> as a copyright owner you have the right to license it under different 
> liceses, eg. creative commons license. But I am not sure if you can license 
> the same work under contradictory license agreements and which will take 
> effect if and when a dispute arise.

Trolltech does that with their licensing for Qt -- you can get the Open Source 
version and be bound by the GPL, or you can buy a commercial version. 
See www.trolltech.com .

JV
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