Then what's the point of dual licensing?

Posted Sep 5, 2007 19:02 UTC (Wed) by mrshiny (guest, #4266)
In reply to: This is one of the rare occasions where I think Theo is right by sepreece
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

If it's unethical to release changes to a dual-licensed file using only one license, what's the point of HAVING a dual-license in the first place? Seems to me the original author is saying "Take your pick", not creating some super-license that contains all the terms of the individual licenses. And IANAL but as far as I'm concerned if a file is available under two licenses you can use the privileges of one license to strip away the other license. The original code would still be dual-licensed but your modified version would be under whichever license you chose.