Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> | The FSF is wrong on "compatible".
>
> They're only right in one circumstance. Using whole slabs of BSDL code
> standalone as part of the GPL project, i.e. no mixing of code, the GPL
> forbids that (since you can't relicense other people's code).
Yes, this is actu
+---[ Terry Lambert ]--
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > There is unfortunately a section of the GPL community who confuses this
| > with the right to simply relicense BSDL code whenever you want, because it
| > doesn't explicitly deny it. The FSF 'GPL compatible' license
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> There is unfortunately a section of the GPL community who confuses this
> with the right to simply relicense BSDL code whenever you want, because it
> doesn't explicitly deny it. The FSF 'GPL compatible' licenses page makes
> this even more confusing (IMO).
>
> If y
+---[ Joerg Wunsch ]--
| Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Suse's Copyright:
| >
| > /* Copyright (c) 1999 Thorsten Kukuk
| >Author: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| That would at least be a copyright violation.
Not necessarily, some derived works
Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suse's Copyright:
>
> /* Copyright (c) 1999 Thorsten Kukuk
>Author: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That would at least be a copyright violation.
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:57:59PM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Bill, did you ever allowed them to make it GPL only ? Looking at the code
> it should be possible to import some things and make a NIS+ client
> available. But only if it's not GPL'd.
Interesting. I looked as nisgrep/nisgrep.c and n
Bills Work:
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/nis.tar.gz
Suse Linux version:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+/nis-utils-1.4.1.tar.bz2
An example from a file:
File: db_add_entry.c
Bills Copyright:
/*
* Copyright (c) 1996, 1997
* Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. All rights
Hi all,
While looking at nis-utils-1.4.1 from linux, I found that that
whole package is based on Bill's work. Intersting that everything there
is GNU labled. What happened to the BSD copyright ? Or has it been GPL'd
from the beginning ?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nis-utils
The author even f
