From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 1:14:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7B237B401 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.250.89]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:49:31 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Wayne Pascoe , Joe Clarke Subject: Re: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:49:31 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Thursday 09 August 2001 17:14, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > 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. 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