From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 3 18:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B39514DB5 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 7746 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 1999 01:41:21 -0000 Message-ID: <19990904014121.7744.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 7733 invoked from network); 4 Sep 1999 01:41:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton) (207.21.168.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 1999 01:41:21 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: "David Schwartz" , Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:39:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com In-reply-to: <000001bef664$4e26f110$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <19990903231722.7492.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 3 Sep 99, at 16:30, David Schwartz wrote: > > > 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. :) I have, and I don't see that. You can redistribute as long as you meet certain conditions. One of those conditions is that the copyright, conditions, and disclaimer (which constitute the license) be kept. Also, by default, the right to determine the license belongs to the copyright holder, and I don't see anything in the license that specifically assigns that right to the user. Hey, I might be wrong (IANAL). I just don't see what you say is in there. But I'm only too happy to be educated. Please show me where in the license it gives away the right to change the license. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message