Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
by simonh on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:48AM
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You're kind of correct in a pedantic nitpicky way. If you release code under the GPL you can't prevent anyone, such as an Enterprise, from using it under that license. But what you can do is also offer it under a commercial license, that commercial customers might be more comfortable with, and let the user choose which license they want to use it under. This is very common and it certainly seemed clear to me that this is what the poster meant.
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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
by henrikschroder on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:39AM
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Well, that enterprise has to receive the software under the GPL license first, and you can absolutely refuse to grant them that, in which case they have to find someone else who has received it under the GPL, and ask that party to sublicense it to the enterprise under the GPL.