Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:04:58 -0700 From: "Lawrence E. Rosen" <lrosen@rosenlaw.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>, "dewaz" <dewaz@ran.es>, <osi@opensource.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: what about clauses? Message-ID: <NBBBJCFHGLLKGPOEPHKBGENECNAA.lrosen@rosenlaw.com> In-Reply-To: <20000525225753.D74623@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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>But suppose Microsoft borrows your code and uses it inside one of >their own programs (which is what I believe they do with BSD code), >rather than keep your program aside as a separate work. What >license will apply to their program, ie how exactly will they satisfy >the conditions of the license below without making those clauses >apply to the entire program -- which includes both your code and >their code? I still don't believe the BSD license can be reasonably interpreted to transform the entire portion of a derivative work into an open source program. Whether the particular routines that incorporate the BSD code would have to be distributed under the BSD license is probably dependent upon the facts as well as a court's interpretation of the requirements of the BSD license language. My recommendation is, be perfectly clear what you mean by your license agreements.... Don't rely on ambiguities. /Larry Rosen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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