Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 08:42:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgra Message-ID: <372F85EB.835C6B99@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905030221220.7672-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > It would be equally wrong to take a BSDL'd work, develop it > further, and then GPL it. Legally it may be ok, but I think it's > ethically wrong, and probably RMS would agree. The original > licence should be respected. It would not be legally ok. BSD license requires that it's terms be kept, while GPL licenses requires that no other restrictions be made. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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