On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
If I see a GNU software that I like and the structure of it makes
sense, or I think it makes sense, but I don't want to correct the
bugs in it because it will stay under GNU. At what point, or how
can it be replace by a BSD one where it's need at the same time to
be fully compatible with the GNU one, meaning the internal
structure and the interface to the world of it needs to stay the
exactly the same.
How can some draw the line between be able to write your own BSD
version using the same internal structures and in many cases the
same function calls needed internally with the same in/out
interface to the world and be able to have it under BSD instead of
GNU?
The code you write is owned by you. You are free to license it
however you see fit; you can release your code as BSD-licensed
"patches" to the original code, but you cannot alter the license on
other people's code.
