From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 17 22:54:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F22737B43C for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0305.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.50] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cheC-0004OK-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:51:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C70A46D.41F05C21@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:51:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD unfinished NIS+ implementation in Linux ? References: <20020217161648.W17787-100000@levais.imp.ch> <200202172007.g1HK7Tl25937@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020218124719.K90065@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > 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). The FSF is wrong on "compatible". No matter what license is on the code, relicensing it under a different license without the author's written permission is not legal. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message