Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:23:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908141221230.57420-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908141142320.11364-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu>
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's
> > no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to
> > recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product.
>
> I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to
> permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP
> stack.
Most likely.
>
> Would it be legal to strip the BSD license of say, inetd and put a GPL on
> it? Many in the Linux community seem to think this is true but I thought
> that'd be just as bad as my BSD licensed GCC distribution :)
No. You'd have to modify the GPL to include the copyright and BSD clauses.
But what would be interesting is: I'm fairly sure that under the terms of the GPL
the end-user may opt to use a later version at their discretion. Now, if one were
to buy out the FSF...
>
> Jamie
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