Re:My take on all this: (Score 1)

I've seen references made to dual-licensing, with one license being the GPL and the other allowing for a subscription (which is terminated as soon as rights under the GPL are exercised). While that may be legal, it seems rather dubious.

But surely only the original author of the code can dual license (unless they get the permission of all additional contributors)?

Is this a loop hole though? Can you separately license patches? Is this company's code compiled in, or separate? Does it constitute a distribution, rather than a single program?

This is confusing :-(

I think the only person I trust 100% for a call on this is RMS himself.