From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 12:57:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DAD37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syjef@hal-pc.org) Received: from jef-nt.hal-pc.org (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.69.212]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA15473; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:54:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010809145415.00a66aa0@mail.hal-pc.org> X-Sender: syjef@mail.hal-pc.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:58:44 -0500 To: "Brad Morgan" , "Joe Clarke" , "FreeBSD User Questions List" From: Jonathan Fosburgh Subject: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question In-Reply-To: References: <20010809144451.R31560-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 01:16 PM 8/9/01 -0600, Brad Morgan wrote: >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 > I am not a lawyer etc etc etc. But it is my understanding that the owner of the copyright can, at any time change the license. Licenses restrict users, not owners. I don't know who owns the product in question, but whoever does could relicense it as GPL if they wish. xfmail used to be BSD licensed, but the owner essentially gave it up and it is now GPL'd. ****************************************************************************** Jonathan Fosburgh | Certified AIX Administrator Software Systems Spec. III | ICQ: 32742908 Communications and Computer Services | MSN: syjef@hotmail.com UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Jabber: syjef@jabber.org Houston, TX | Yahoo: jefosburgh ****************************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message