Providing a Closed Source License Upon Request?

goruka writes "As a citizen of the open source community, I have written several applications and libraries and released under the BSD license. Because of my license choice, I often run into the situation where a company wants to write software for a closed platform using my code or libraries. Even though there should be no restrictions on usage, companies very often request a different license, citing as a valid reason that the creator of such platform has special terms forbidding 'open source software' in the contracts forced upon the developer. So my question is, has anyone else run into this situation, and are there examples of such licenses that I can provide? (Please keep in mind that I'm not a US resident and I don't have access or resources to afford a lawyer there.)"

Comments

Don't do it

[Omnifarious]

Such stupid policies should be given all possible economic disincentive.

Re:Dual-license

[Daniel Dvorkin]

The reason you were modded off-topic is probably because your reply had absolutely nothing to do with dual licensing, and everything to do with ranting about what a butthead Monty Widenius is and how much better PostgreSQL and SQLite are than MySQL. All of which may be true, but it's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Responding to an on-topic post with an off-topic rant does nothing to answer the story submitter's question.