Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:35:37 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <20010227203537.L609@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <200102272017.NAA00440@usr05.primenet.com> References: <20010227192923.I609@hand.dotat.at> <200102272017.NAA00440@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>Please compare sections 11 and 12 of the GPL with the BSD
>liability disclaimer, in the context of section 6 sentence 3
>of the GPL ("You may not impose further restrictions...").
Hmm, well I fail to spot the differences but then IANAL.
>Realize also that not all of FreeBSD is under the 3 clause
>license, and that embedded systems manufacturers frequently
>licensedrivers for which source can not be legally distributed
>to third parties (which would put the code in violation of
>section 6 sentence 2 of the GPL).
Well they have that problem anyway. I was talking purely about linking
BSD and GPL code because of your comment about "the GPL disallowing
distribution of the code with non-GPL'ed code" which AFAIK is wrong.
Tony.
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