From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 8:12:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3879A37B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5041D43E3B for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4 [24.93.67.51]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g71FDpts004040; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:13:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:12:49 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 3C059BA12; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:12:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "Anish Mistry" , Subject: Re: License Question Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:12:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <003801c23969$8dcce540$e244c40a@athlon856> In-Reply-To: <003801c23969$8dcce540$e244c40a@athlon856> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208011112.37941.bts@babbleon.org> 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 Well, the FreeBSD license is pretty short & sweet. I'd read what you wrote and if it forbids what you want to do, then you need to re-license it. This is usually done with existing programs using an "either/or" license: either the old or the new one may be used. I'd suggest just adding a "without the permission of the author" clause to the whole licesense; this gives you leave henceforth to make any exceptions for anybody you choose. The exact legal nicities are a little confusing since you previously licensed it under different terms, but since you are the only person with standing to sue and since you are the one giving the permission I assume you don't have to worry about suing yourself, so that simplifies matters. On Thursday 01 August 2002 10:41 am, Anish Mistry wrote: | I am writing some software for company that I am consulting with, in which | I reuse code which I have licensed under a bsd-style license. The issue is | that they don't want any other copyright info or license file distibuted | with thier software in which this application that I am writing is included | from. With the bsd-style license you must included a copy of the license | with any binaries created by the sources that contain the license it that | correct? So would it just be better to relicense all the bsd-style license | code since i wrote all of it, under something that would fit thier | requirement? | | (when i refer to the bsd-style license i am refering to the revised bsd | style license, ie. the current freebsd license.) | | Thanks, | | Anish Mistry | amistry@am-productions.yi.org | AM Productions http://am-productions.yi.org/ | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message