From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 21:43:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA58537B410 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7B4h8b17409; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , "Wayne Pascoe" , "Joe Clarke" Cc: Subject: RE: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:43:08 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c12220$1e8030e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian >T.Schellenberger >less free; GPL would therefore seem to forbid BSDing it. > >So I don't see how you can go in that direction. > You can because there is a loophole in the GPL. Since the author of the work retains copyright, he (or she) alone can re-license the work. If it's a cooperative distribution then all the authors must agree of course, but it can be done. This was intentional by RMS by the way and is discussed up on the gnu website in some obscure area. This is one of the reasons that the GNU Project strongly recommends assigning over the copyright of the distribution to The GNU Project. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > >-- >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message