Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 17:13:44 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au>
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Hi, 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. (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html) Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. To paraphrase and make a nice English sentence, "redistributions and use in source [...] forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided" "redistributions of source code [...] retain the above copyright notice...". So where did the idea that you could use BSD licensed code without regard for (retaining) the license come from? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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