Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:49:50 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [...] > >So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become > >licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT > >portions of m

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to pr

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Joe Smith wrote: > "Suraj N. Kurapati" wrote: >> So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become >> licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT >> portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD >> license? > > That is an easy way to view it. Technica

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to extract the originally-MIT portions from the file and act upon them only according to the MIT license? Yes, because if you can extract the exact portions that are MIT licensed there's no way you could tell the difference

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become >> licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT >> portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license? > > The comb

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license?

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Smith
"Suraj N. Kurapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an >> additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names >> to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. > > Um, neither the BS

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remarks === The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT licen

BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Hello, Please consider the following scenarios to help me better understand whether BSD* and MIT code are "compatible". *I am referring to the 3-clause BSD license: http://opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/bsd-license.php Scenario Suppose that (1) I have two C source files (mit.c and