Chris writes: > The relicensing debate is something which is surprisingly complex. My > view (after discussing this with Richard Fontana from the software > freedom law center a couple years ago) is that the BSD license does > not allow attaching restrictions to unmodified BSD-licensed code.
If it is unmodified you cannot "relicense" it regardless of the original license because there is nothing there in which you own any copyright and only the copyright owner can grant a license. If it is modified your license applies to the resulting derivative and to your modifications but not to any portions of the original that remain unchanged. You cannot attach restrictions to code in which you do not own copyright (not may not: cannot). -- John Hasler [email protected] Elmwood, WI USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
