Les Mikesell wrote:
Perhaps there are places who want to prevent better versions than their
own from ever being available and use this to justify the GPL
restrictions on combinations with other components. From a user's
perspective, though, this is just as harmful as any other
anti-competitive ploy to limit choices. And unfortunately, even if the
business reasons to maintain the restrictions on a particular product go
away, the restrictions, once applied, never do.
That's factually incorrect. Relicensing, dual or even tri licensing
happens all the time.
Rahul