[TriLUG] I have some sticky licensing questions

[Mark Smith]

> I'm pretty sure I can license my program any way I want ...

I'm not a lawyer (just a fellow developer), but that's my understanding
also.

> Here are some questions:
> ...
> Could I dual-license it GPL2 and GPL3 or MIT and GPL3 or MIT and GPL2
> and GPL3, and would that allow them to incorporate it into a program
> that's GPL 3 or later?
>
I think you, as the author and copyright holder, can have as many licenses
on it as you like, allowing users to choose whichever works best for them
(but they can't mix & match parts of the different licenses).

I typically just throw on an MIT license for my own open source stuff, but
I guess dual/tri-licensing with GPL 2 & 3 as well would allow more copyleft
projects to adopt them as well. I'll think about that in future.

- Mark