Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:54:51 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" Message-ID: <199804211754.LAA28936@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org>
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In article <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> you wrote: > I had an interesting discussion with some friends who > are Linux "fanatics" last night. They said that the *BSDs > will naturally never do as well as Linux, because the GPL > "locks" code into the GNU model. That is to day, the Linux > folks can take code from FreeBSD, add their own, and > "copyleft" the result -- at which point it can't be > published again under the less restrictive Berkeley license. > (And to think that the Linux folks claim that *others* > "take code hostage.") This is simply untrue. The GPL requires that no additional restrictions be placed on the code other than the terms of the GPL. So, unless your copyright has no terms or, as is the case with the aic7xxx driver explicitly allows the replacement of the licensing terms with the GPL, you cannot mix GPL and non-GPL code in a single binary object. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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