From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 9:43:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257621522B for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA57792; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:42:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:42:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: David Scheidt Cc: James Howard , Mike Smith , Jason Thorpe , Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > There is also the clause that says "You may not impose any further > restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted > herein.", which could be taken to mean you can't use BSD-licensed > code, since that requires "This product includes software developed > by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." be > attached to derived works. > Exactly. That's what the "no" was for, but thank you for clarifying =) > > > > > > 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... > > That is something that always bothered me. I have taken it as the "When we > realize that we won't take over the world, we will go to a sensible license" > clause. > Have they given up yet? > David Scheidt > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message