On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Would it be legal to strip the BSD license of say, inetd and put a GPL on
> > > it? Many in the Linux community seem to think this is true but I thought
> > > that'd be just as bad as my BSD licensed GCC distribution :)
> >
> > No. You'd have to modify the GPL to include the copyright and BSD clauses.
>
> There is also the clause that says "You may not impose any further
> restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted
> herein.", which could be taken to mean you can't use BSD-licensed
> code, since that requires "This product includes software developed
> by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." be
> attached to derived works.
>
Exactly. That's what the "no" was for, but thank you for clarifying =)
>
>
> >
> > But what would be interesting is: I'm fairly sure that under the terms of
> > the GPL
> > the end-user may opt to use a later version at their discretion. Now, if
> > one were
> > to buy out the FSF...
>
> That is something that always bothered me. I have taken it as the "When we
> realize that we won't take over the world, we will go to a sensible license"
> clause.
>
Have they given up yet?
> David Scheidt
>
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