From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 14:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C0937B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13X91E-000C6Z-00; Thu, 07 Sep 2000 23:15:36 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:15:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Mr. K." Cc: Jonathan Fosburgh , R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSD license questions Message-ID: <20000907231536.A46319@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <14775.65247.827000.782591@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bsd@inbox.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:04:14PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-09-07 (17:04), Mr. K. wrote: > The question does not concern source. It concerns distribution in binary > without allowing redistribution. > If the BSD licence allows you to release the code+mods in binary only > form, what stops the end user from re-releasing the code+mods in > binary only form? Nothing. If you get something distributed to you under the BSD license, you can do whatever you like with it so long as you obey the simple rules that are there primarily to protect the original authors from legal liability. > This is actually a good question, which I don't see an adequate answer > to. The statement was that the licence only goes one level deep, but > that is not said in the licence itself. The license says it quite clearly: * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. It says "Redistributions in binary form", which I'm sure makes sense. "must reproduce the above copyright..." which means it must be printed somewhere. It doesn't say that binary redistribution has to be under the same license. For source code, it says "must retain", because the copyright notice and such are already there, so don't rip them out. It doesn't say that this license must affect this file. It certainly doesn't say that this license should affect any other file that makes up your project. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message