From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 4: 0:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491F137B404 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D2615530A; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:28 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Ian Pulsford Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Apr 2002 14:00:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ian Pulsford writes: > It is commonly spouted in Linux forums that you take BSD licensed code > and do what you want with it including putting into your GPL project > under a GPL license. On looking closer at the "simplified" license I > don't see anywhere that it says you can freely relicense code under > another license. Software under the two- or three-clause BSD license can be relicensed under the GPL provided the copyright is maintained. Software under the four-clause BSD license can't because the advertising clause conflicts with the GPL's "no additional restrictions" clause. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message