Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-18 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Matthew Wala wrote: And people can copypaste that code out of your project and reuse it elsewhere under the original (BSD) terms. Doesn't section 2b say that projects reusing BSD code from a GPL'd project have to be GPL'd? The GPL applies to the combination of the old BSD code and the newly

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-17 Thread Matthew Wala
And people can copypaste that code out of your project and reuse it elsewhere under the original (BSD) terms. Doesn't section 2b say that projects reusing BSD code from a GPL'd project have to be GPL'd? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matthew Wala wrote: The new BSD (meaning, without the forced-advertising clause) and GPL licenses are considered compatible, but how are the requirements of the BSD license satisfied when BSD licensed code is included in GPL projects (eg, the Linux kernel)? (1) Include the copyright

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matthew Wala wrote: And people can copypaste that code out of your project and reuse it elsewhere under the original (BSD) terms. Doesn't section 2b say that projects reusing BSD code from a GPL'd project have to be GPL'd? No. This is a matter of identifying the individual works making up

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-10 Thread Markus Laire
On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Wala wrote: Is clause 3 of the BSD license (The name of the author...) GPL-compatible? Yes, because GPL article 1 has a corresponding requirement. So there is no conflict in licensing terms, and therefore you can release the whole

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-10 Thread Lewis Jardine
Markus Laire wrote: On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Wala wrote: Is clause 3 of the BSD license (The name of the author...) GPL-compatible? Yes, because GPL article 1 has a corresponding requirement. I don't see any such requirement in GPLv2[1] article 1: I

compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-09 Thread Matthew Wala
The new BSD and GPL licenses are considered compatible, but how are the requirements of the BSD license satisfied when BSD licensed code is included in GPL projects (eg, the Linux kernel)?Is clause 3 of the BSD license (The name of the author...) GPL-compatible?

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-09 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Matthew Wala wrote: The new BSD and GPL licenses are considered compatible, but how are the requirements of the BSD license satisfied when BSD licensed code is included in GPL projects (eg, the Linux kernel)? Keep the copyright notices on all BSD source code and keep the BSD license text and