John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
DJA wrote:
However going the other direction, BSD code can be converted to GPL,
because the BSD license imposes no conditions on its use.
Ensure that you speak of the 3-clause BSD license, and not the 4-clause
BSD license.
-john
The original 4-clause license which copied Clause Four verbatim is okay,
but the newer 3-clause license is better. GNU/Linux is full of BSD code
licensed under the former.
I've always thought that the stink about the advertising clause was
overblown. Sure, it could be a cumbersome housekeeping problem if there
are lots of Clause 4 ads, but other than that, I see those ads as not
really different from the GPL requirement of including all proper
(copyright) attribution.
I see no problem taking the meat of the GPL and including 4-clause BSD
ads to cover whatever BSD code required that[1]. Naturally, the FSF
might not want me to call my new license GPL, but I'm guessing it would
qualify as GPL-compatible.
Isn't it really about the spirit of Free software?
[1] This all presumes my program contains no borrowed GPL code so as not
to piss off the GPL purists.
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~DJA.
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