Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > Let me try and restate my reasoning. When making a derived work from GPL > > > source, you are not allowed to add extra, more restrictive conditions on > > > top of the GPL conditions. But the (new) BSD licence does impose an extra > > > condition, namely the condition to reproduce the BSD licence. It's not an > > > onerous condition, or a condition that damages freeness -- but it is an > > > extra condition. So how can one make a work derived from both BSD and GPL > > > source? > > > > Um, the GPL already requires that you keep all the "appropriate > > copyright notices" intact. So the BSD license is not adding some new > > condition at all; it's repeating a portion of the GPL's condition. > > > > I don't have any problem with the copyright notice. My problem is that the > BSD licence requires that you reproduce not only the copyright notice, but > also the licence itself and their disclaimer. This seems like extra > conditions to me.
Those conditions are actually all part of the copyright notice itself.
