Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:47:19 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD unfinished NIS+ implementation in Linux ? Message-ID: <20020218124719.K90065@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200202172007.g1HK7Tl25937@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:07:29PM %2B0100 References: <20020217161648.W17787-100000@levais.imp.ch> <200202172007.g1HK7Tl25937@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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+-------[ Joerg Wunsch ]---------------------- | Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> wrote: | | > Suse's Copyright: | > | > /* Copyright (c) 1999 Thorsten Kukuk | > Author: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> | | That would at least be a copyright violation. Not necessarily, some derived works are entitled to copyright protection in their own right, hard to prove you've changed it enough to get that though. Unauthorised relicensing of the invididual parts is a copyright violation, it's legal to contain BSDL code in a larger GPL'd work. The contained code still retains the original copyright and license. There is unfortunately a section of the GPL community who confuses this with the right to simply relicense BSDL code whenever you want, because it doesn't explicitly deny it. The FSF 'GPL compatible' licenses page makes this even more confusing (IMO). If you want to stop your BSDL code being used in GPL projects (not sure why you would want to), stick the advertising clause in, this then makes the BSDL GPL incompatible (according to the FSF). -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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