Henning Eggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reinhard Tartler schrieb: >> Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> changing anything from BSD to GPL is easy. It's the reverse that's >>> impossible. >>> >> No, it is not. Please read the BSD license. It explicitly does *not* >> allow you to remove the copyright headers and therefore relicense it. >> > Well, the BSD license only requires the headers to remain in the source > and the binaries, it does not forbid adding more headers and > licences. In fact, it doesn't say anything about how derivative work > should be licensed, as the GPL does. So I should think that *adding* a > GPL license to a file that already has a BSD license does not violate > that license.
That's the important difference. Mackenzie talked about 'changeing' a work from BSD to GPL. That's different to what you way. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- launchpad-users mailing list launchpad-users@lists.canonical.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
