David Kastrup writes: > 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.
>From the BSD license: 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. Thus when you distribute a program that includes BSD-licensed material (and comply with the license) you are distributing that material under the terms of the BSD license. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
