Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:49:31 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question Message-ID: <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> References: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Thursday 09 August 2001 17:14, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> 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. That sounds right to me . . . > 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. . . . but I don't see how they could do that. The GPL is meant to prevent you from doing anything to prevent the GPL license from preventing people from sharing any derivative of the one-GPLed work, and the greater freedom of the BSD licesnse means that going from GPL to BSD really makes it more free, but then somebody can make another "branch" off of the BSD project to make it less free; GPL would therefore seem to forbid BSDing it. So I don't see how you can go in that direction. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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