On 10/4/05, Eike Rathke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Kohei,
>
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:28:44 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>
> > > Thanks.  I actually didn't realize that a BSD licensed code is
> > > incompatible with ours.
>
> It is, because of its advertising clause.

Ah, I got it.

>
> > Just for a clarification, could I just take the same code which is BSD
> > licensed and submit it under JCA (if that's allowed)?  Or would the
> > code need to be written from scratch in a clean-room?
>
> Only if you're the copyright owner of code you can decide to relicense
> it under a different license.

Understood.  So I have no choice but to implement it clean-room. 
That's fine with me.  It's just that I'll take a bit longer.

Thanks for the clarification, Eike.

Kohei


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Kohei Yoshida
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