On 03 Aug 2005 13:44:55 -0400, Bruce Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Drivative works of BSD'd code (derivative literary works [modulo the AFC >> test] under copyright law) are subject to BSD. > > That's really interesting. What legal jurisdiction are you in? > U.S. law is different. Here, derivative works have separate copyrights > independent of copyrights on the material they're derived from. Since > the BSD license allows code to be used for any purpose, the purpose of > creating a derivative work and distributing it under a different license > is allowed. Material contributed by the author of the derivative work > would not be subject to the BSD license.
Derivative works have separate copyrights, but distributing an inseparable derivative or collective work, such as a program in object form requires complying with the copyright/license provisions of the original material. The BSD license does have terms, just not onerous ones. The advertising clause was a potentially onerous one. Isaac _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
