Matthew Dillon wrote:
:But does the BSDL allow the code to be relicensed? ie. i am a GPL dev, and i
:take a file ftp.c which is BSD licensed. Can I wrap the code in GPL license
:(though preserving the BSD copyright and license in there)?
:
:The BSD license doesn't indicate that this is
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:33:17 pm Matthew Dillon wrote:
Clearly the BSD license does not disallow the modifications made
by the second developer to be placed under some other license.
The BSD license only covers the BSD-licensed code. The question is
how should a third party
:Notice that when I say sufficiently large changes I have no idea how
:much needs to be changes for something to legally be considered to be a
:derivative work or how it is measured but I would guess that it is
:measured more in functionality than in amount of code.
:
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:Erik Wikström
It
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Theo made a point of stating that he thought it meant that the BSD
license completely trumped the GPL but Theo is no more a lawyer then
I am so all I can do is throw up my hands and say 'I don't know'.
There is some code in the OpenBSD license designed to
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:42:48 pm you wrote:
The code has to have significant additions or modifications to be able to
add your own copyright to the main part of the code.
(As an example, should someone who fixes spelling and grammar and adds and
changes a few sentences to a 100-page open
The issue between OpenBSD and Linux revolves around Sam Leffler's code
(as in the Sam Leffler of FreeBSDland).
Basically Sam's code is dual-licensed and he has explicitly said that
people can use one license to the exclusion of the other.
OpenBSD then took Sam's code and, per
:But does the BSDL allow the code to be relicensed? ie. i am a GPL dev, and i
:take a file ftp.c which is BSD licensed. Can I wrap the code in GPL license
:(though preserving the BSD copyright and license in there)?
:
:The BSD license doesn't indicate that this is allowed.
:
:Petr
