Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:38:10 -0700 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicrecords.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Message-ID: <19990908044028.19573.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> In-Reply-To: <199909080019.RAA14584@usr06.primenet.com> References: <19990903231722.7492.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> from "Dave Walton" at Sep 3, 99 04:15:03 pm
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On 8 Sep 99, at 0:19, Terry Lambert wrote: > The "Claim Credit" clause, sometimes wrongly called > the advertising caluse by people who don't understand that it does > not invoke unless you try to claim credit for the code, I don't understand. I don't see anything conditional about clause 3. How is it that it only applies when you try to claim credit? > It may well be that someone will attempt to GPL all of the BSD4.4 > code. It may also be that Jordan Hubbard will have success pushing > the 2 caluse license, thus allowing a FreeBSD distribution to be > GPL'ed. > > > > The removal of the advertising clause makes it possible to > > > relicense BSD code under the GPL. > > > > Does it? Only the copyright holder can change the license, and > > they can do that whether or not there is an advertising clause. > > Removal of that clause doesn't allow a third party to change the > > license, because they don't have that right. > > It makes it possible to license unmodified BSD4.4-Lite2 derived > code under GPL (assuming it's not a hoax). Ok, now I'm completely confused. How is it possible for someone other than the copyright holder to take unmodified copyrighted code and release it under a different license?? Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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