"Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Wreschnig said: >> If someone adds proprietary code to BSD-licensed code, however, you can >> later extract the free code (assuming you have access to the code of >> the now-proprietary program), and use it in something else. Once >> proprietary (invariant) sections are added to something under the GFDL, >> that version of the document is forever non-free, because they can't >> ever be removed. >> >> A nice example of a viral license. > > If "proprietary" (invariant) sections are added to something under the GFDL, > you can still fork the (free) version from before those are added. Similar > things have happened with software.
But you have to go and find a copy from before the proprietary section was added. With a normal combined work, you can just remove the proprietary code and take the clearly marked (heh) BSD code. -Brian -- Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/