I'm not sure I understand how one could run into legal problems here; it's perfectly legitimate to license something both under the GPL and another license. Unless you're worried about people taking the emptool source, making a product out of it, and selling it - in which case, the "another license" can be something like: You can use this software for whatever you want, including basing other software products on it, but you need to leave the copyright notice intact and you can't make a profit from any derived work without the express written permission of SonicBlue. With appropriate legal language, of course; I'm pretty sure one of the various public source licenses out there would serve as a good model for this.

I can't really think of a compelling reason for you guys to do it other than "I'd be far more comfortable with emptool not being licensed under the GPL, so that I can be free to use non-GPL'd components for future enhancements to JEmplode," though. :)


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Daniel M. Zimmerman, Caltech Computer Science
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