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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:51:11 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To: Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
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Ian Pulsford said on Apr  6, 2002 at 17:13:44:
> To paraphrase and make a nice English sentence, "redistributions and use
> in source [...] forms, with or without modification, are permitted
> provided" "redistributions of source code [...] retain the above
> copyright notice...".

Yes.
 
> So where did the idea that you could use BSD licensed code without
> regard for (retaining) the license come from?

(a) Copyright notice != license.  Yes, you must retain the notice. 
    It doesn't say anything about how you may license the code to
    third parties.
(b) You are not compelled to redistribute the source code.  (If you
    were, it would be a "viral" license like the GPL.)

Rahul

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