From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 7 21:40:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0858314F42 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 19576 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 1999 04:40:28 -0000 Message-ID: <19990908044028.19573.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 19562 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1999 04:40:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton) (207.21.168.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 8 Sep 1999 04:40:28 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: Terry Lambert Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:38:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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