Re: License that converts to GPL after a specified amount of time

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 07:34:09AM +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> I'm looking for examples of software licenses that allow the end user to
> redistribute copies under the GPL after a specified amount of time has
> passed.  I think that Ghostscript used to be licensed like this, but I
> can't seem to locate the old license.   
> 
> Does anyone have an example of a license like this?  

I don't know of such a license, though it may exist, but in the case
of Ghostscript, what they did was re-license with the GNU GPL after
some "grace" period, and not an automatic process.

Rui

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