From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 10:43:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles547.castles.com [208.214.165.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C579414C28 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:43:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07270; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908141738.KAA07270@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jason Thorpe Cc: Mike Smith , James Howard , Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:28:30 PDT." <199908141728.KAA03154@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:38:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:46:27 -0700 > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > So, if they were to simply put a BSD license on the code, then everyone > > > would be happy, and there wouldn't be any of the dual-license confusion. > > > > 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. > > No, that's not true. The GPL cannot *replace* a license that is on a > piece of code. If people modify a piece of BSD-licensed software, they > are doing so in accordance to the BSD-style license on that code. > > What the GPL does is require that full source for the program be included > with the program, and that full source, in my example, would include > a BSD-licensed XFS module. It also requires that the GPL be attached to that additional source component. Go back and read section 3 of the GPL again. We've had this discussion before. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message