From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 14:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E2337B405 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from madadmin.demon.co.uk ([193.237.103.251] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15Ux97-0002Jk-01; Thu, 09 Aug 2001 22:15:13 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Ux3n-0006cE-00; Thu, 09 Aug 2001 22:09:43 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Ux8J-0006uM-00; Thu, 09 Aug 2001 22:14:23 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Joe Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question References: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 09 Aug 2001 22:14:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Joe Clarke writes: > Right, this I understand. The issue in question is that someone who is > not the owner wants to relicense the software. IANAL, but if I remember right, under the bsd licence, anyone can fork a project into another project. At the point of the fork, they could place the new project under the licence of their choice. This would mean that joe random hacker could fork the netatalk project into netatalk-gpl and licence this project under the GPL. Personally, I don't see the benefit of doing this. Various people, including the Ogg Vorbis team have moved things from GPL to BSD style licences to stay friendly with businesses. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message