Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/20/04

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:59:26 -0600

    On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:20 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
    > I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as
    > a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype.
    > If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money.
    >
    > Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on SourceForge.
    > (It might help close a sale.)
    >
    > Do I need some kind of dual license?

    I don't think you can change the license of an existing version,
    i.e. 0.9, but you could relicense v1.0 when that it released.

    IANAL, of course. 

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