From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 12:17: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E899C37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from B-Morgan@concentric.net) Received: from cos80474 (cpe-24-221-198-127.co.sprintbbd.net [24.221.198.127]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10022; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brad Morgan" To: "Joe Clarke" , "FreeBSD User Questions List" Subject: RE: BSD license question Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:16:29 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010809144451.R31560-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It depends on how the license is written. The BSD license is less restrictive than the GPL license so you may be able to go BSD to GPL, but not GPL to BSD. I'm not a lawyer so don't take my word for it. Carefully examine the text of the licenses. Brad -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Clarke Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:47 PM To: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: OT: BSD license question I realize this is off-topic, but please help me out here. I'm a netatalk developer. Netatalk is currently BSD-licensed code. There is a thread on the developers list to change netatalk from BSD to GPL. Is this legal? Can someone arbitrarily change the license of a project if they're not the author? I don't think so. Seems to me Microsoft would have taken Linux, said it's now BSD licensed, and used it in Windows XP ( ;-) ). Thanks for some clarification. Joe Clarke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message