From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 3 16:30:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7BC150A9 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:30:28 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" , Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:30:28 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bef664$4e26f110$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: <19990903231722.7492.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The removal of the advertising clause makes it possible to > > relicense BSD code under the GPL. > > Does it? Only the copyright holder can change the license, and > they can do that whether or not there is an advertising clause. > Removal of that clause doesn't allow a third party to change the > license, because they don't have that right. Yes it does, because the license gives them that right. Try reading it. :) DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message