In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The original copyright owner is still able to sue if his software is >used without license. The license he granted to the person using it >in the GPLed software (which might have been bought at a high price) >does not magically extend to third recipients unless the redistributor >chooses to sublicense under BSD. I think the assumption was that the original author made it *publicly* available under the BSD licence, and someone extracted portions of that publicly-available code from the GPLed derivative work. This would usually be pointless since you could get the original BSD licensed code instead. -- Richard _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
