Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:45:05 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <20020406114505.GA2576@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3CAEDDD2.2ADA819F@mindspring.com> References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <20020406105111.A90057@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAEDDD2.2ADA819F@mindspring.com>
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> > (a) Copyright notice != license. Yes, you must retain the notice. > > It doesn't say anything about how you may license the code to > > third parties. > > "This notice" is inclusive. You can't delete lines out of > the middle of it, and claim continued compliance. This means > you must leave the license terms intact. So if Microsoft used the BSD implementation of ftp, they must give it to you under the BSD license? > > (b) You are not compelled to redistribute the source code. (If you > > were, it would be a "viral" license like the GPL.) > > No, but you are required to duplicate the notice in accompanying > documentation. > > Whether this grants people the right to distribute the binaries > of the code you distribute is questionable. Again, IANAL, but you seem to be questioning the most fundamental assumptions people make about BSD licensing. (Is it questionable that an embedded systems developer can distribute devices containing FreeBSD binaries without supplying the source code?) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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