Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:51:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD unfinished NIS+ implementation in Linux ? Message-ID: <3C70A46D.41F05C21@mindspring.com> References: <20020217161648.W17787-100000@levais.imp.ch> <200202172007.g1HK7Tl25937@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020218124719.K90065@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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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
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