Subject: Re: handling copyright/license infringement
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/18/2004 07:22:29
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 01:38:32PM +0700, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> I want to make my work to be rally free for use by other people. From my 
> personal point of view, BSD license almost exactly does this and GPL license 
> heavily restricts my rights. Question is: may i add 4th statement like:
> 
> 4. This source code may not me be distributed under other license.
> 
> Well, probably this statement isn't clear but i all want is to be sure, that 
> my code will be always really free for any usage including commercial and 
> will be licensed the way i desided to and nobody will fork it under 
> GPL/LGPL/<you name>.

I'm not sure about changing licenses on existing software that someone
else has written - your contribution to it can be licensed pretty how much
you want I think.

However there are examples of the non-distribution clause. See IPfilter's
licence.