Date: 06 Apr 2002 14:00:28 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <xzpd6xdqboj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au>
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Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au> 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
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