Josh Ockert wrote:
I'm not so sure you guys have this right.
No BSD-licensed code is allowed to use a GPL library and remain
BSD-licensed. According to the GPL, Section 2:
"b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License."
The derivative work as a whole must be released under the terms of the GPL
because of this. The parts of the derivative work which originally were under
that other license remain available under that other license alone, just as the
parts which originally were under the GPL remain available under the GPL, alone.
Nothing in the GPL forces the other code by itself to be under the GPL.
How could that possibly be the case? [1]
Many simple permissive licenses are GPL-miscable, including the BSDL and
MIT/X11 licenses. See:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
You can even link GPL'ed code with proprietary code, but the result cannot be
redistributed per GPL #7. Such a combination can still be used by you as an
individual, because GPL #0 states: "The act of running the Program is not
restricted...."
--
-Chuck
[1]: You can choose to use any license you want for original code that you've
written. Software licenses apply to the code which is under that license, and
to derivative works (assuming the license permits such to be created);
conversely, a license does not apply to code which is not under that license.
Unless you are the author, or unless the author grants permission for you to
relicense the original source code, you do not have the right to take
BSD-licensed code and put it under the GPL just because you feel like doing so,
or just because you've linked the original program against (eg) GNU readline.
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