On 10/01/15 18:16, Michael Bradley wrote: > Now suppose Project B’s source code is derived from Project A’s > source code, but the maintainer of Project B wishes to use a > different license.
What do you mean by "use"? Do you mean "use a different license for project B when distributed as a whole", or do you mean "actively prevent bits of project A which are in, and have been modified by, project B from being used under the license of project A (e.g. by reincorporation into the upstream)"? > In an effort to avoid confusion, Project B has > that different license text at the head of each of its source code > files, while Project A's original license text has been moved off to > a file bundled in Project B's source distributions, e.g. > “licenses/ORIGINAL-PROJECTA-LICENSE.txt”. > > Would that be in compliance with the “retain” language in clause #1 > of the 3-Clause BSD license? Clause 1 and Clause 2 are differently worded; clause 2 says "in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution", and clause 1 does not. That suggests to me that clause 1 therefore is _not_ satisfied with "in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution", if that's not the case already for the source in question, but needs to be left on each file. > Is there any case law to that effect or > to the contrary? References to legal write-ups on this question (or > similar) would be appreciated. I can't help you with actual legal advice, I'm afraid. Gerv _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
