RJack <u...@example.net> writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> On 3/22/2010 3:41 PM, RJack wrote: >>> That will never happen. Copyrights are exclusive rights and cannot >>> be licensed by anyone except the *owner* of a copyright. Releasing >>> BSD licensed code under the GPL is simply attempting to steal it. >> >> BSD-licensed code gives others the right to create derivative works >> without requiring that those derivative works be licensed under the >> same terms. > > Only the *owner* of code licensed under the BSD license may > change that license. It's an *exclusive* right.
Licenses are not attached to code, but to transactions. If I receive code under the BSD license, that gives me permission to pass it on under a number of other licenses. That does not change the copyright ownership. > "§ 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works. > Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this > title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the > following:. . ." Yes, and he authorizes me to distribute code licensed under BSD to me under different terms and conditions, as long as I _myself_ adhere to the BSD licensing conditions. > You can't make up your own copyright law -- the federal courts will > refuse to enforce it. I don't need to. That you pretend not to understand BSD licensing does not mean that the courts don't. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
