Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 01:19:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Brian W. Buchanan) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgra Message-ID: <199905030119.SAA16768@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905021741250.71380-100000@smarter.than.nu> from "Brian W. Buchanan" at May 2, 99 06:11:31 pm
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> > 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. > > You're missing the point of the BSD license. Usually when someone > BSD-licenses code, they are indicating that they don't care what you do > with the code, so long as you give credit where credit is due. The intent > is that others be able to use your code without worrying about jumping > through hoops or having their own intellectual property rights eroded. Besides which, the GPL specifically prohibits additional conditions (other than itself) on the terms of distribution. E.g., you can't take code with an existing claim cresit clause, as in the UCB License, and GPL it -- because of the GPL. I expect that the new license will remove this restriction, so that they can drag all of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD sources into the GNU Hurd... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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