On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:14, Greg wrote: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freenet/Contrib/fecimpl/onion/alien/onion_LICENSE?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
Looks ok to me. > > Gianni Johansson (giannijohansson at attbi.com) wrote: > > I've seen some people say you can't mix BSD and GPL code and others say > > you can't. If you have definitive links, please post them. > > It depends on which BSD license it is. There are at least two major > versions of the BSD license, and they're usually referred to by the > number of clauses they contain. The newer BSD license has 3 clauses: > > 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. > 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors > may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this > software without specific prior written permission. > > This license is said to be compatible with the GPL because it does not > pose any additional restrictions on the distribution of the software > beyond those already present in (or permitted under) the GPL. > > The older BSD license had 4 clauses. The fourth clause, and its > retraction, can be found here: > > ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change > > This fourth clause was *not* compatible with the GPL, because it > placed an additional restriction on the terms under which the software > could be distributed; this made it a violation of licensing to > distribute a software covered by both the GPL and the 4-clause BSD > licenses. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
