On Sunday 25 November 2001 02:48 pm, Paul Guyot wrote: > The BSD-Lite is derived from the BSD license. I just removed "this > lists of conditions" from clauses 1 and 2 of the BSD license. > Indeed, these clauses makes the BSD license with licenses such as the > GPL, as explained here: > http://www.kallisys.org/bsd-lite/bsd-gpl/?lg=en
I wasn't aware that there was a problem with BSD-GPL compatibility. There are many GPLd projects with some source files under the BSD license (KDE, Linux, etc.) with narry a complaint from anyone who ever spent time reading the licences in question. I've read over your arguments in your GPL/BSD page, and although I disagree that you are a "silly wanker", you are still wrong. Here's why: A BSD licensed source file (or library, module, etc) in a GPL project cannot have its list of conditions removed. However this list of conditions does not apply to the whole project, only to the specific parts that are under the BSD license. According to the GPL, the work "as a whole" must be licensed under the GPL, not necessarily all of its parts. Since the BSD license does not restrict the user from exercising any of the rights or permissions granted by the GPL license attached to the "whole", there is no incompatibility. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
