If I release some code that I wrote myself with an Open Source license (a WordPress plugin with the GPL2 license, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html), can I then use my own code in commercial software?
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1Google the concept of "dual licencing".– SJuan76Commented Feb 18, 2019 at 8:43
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Thanks. That let me to this softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/331846/… which seems to be the answer I was looking for.– AaronJCommented Feb 18, 2019 at 13:12
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If it's your code (and you're not using someone else's released under a GPL version), you can release it as you like under what terms you like under whatever licenses you like. There are no restrictions on what you can do.
One common model is to provide a "community edition" under the GPL and sell the right to use the software with a more commercial license to people who want to incorporate it in their closed-source software. MySQL used this model for some time.
