On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Judd Storrs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jaroslav Hajek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No, you don't. Neither you know whether someone replaced or modified >> the license in the sources. > > Only the copyright holder can pursue infringement claims or modify > licensing.
No. If the license allows it, you can redistribute the source under a modified license. For instance, you can take a BSD code and incorporate it into Octave. The result is distributed under GPL. The incorporated source may (and often does) carry the BSD header, but effectively it *is* covered by GPL. If you take that source from Octave, it is still covered by GPL; you can't "downgrade" it back to BSD. If you take a copy of the same source code from elsewhere (i.e. not "filtered" through a GPL'ed project), it's under BSD. > The BSD license does not transfer ownership neither does it grant > the right to modify the license. If you think otherwise, please cite the > text of the BSD license that grants these rights. "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:" The only modification may well be adding a license restriction. If you think otherwise, please cite the text of the BSD license that forbids this :) Of course this *doesn't* apply back to the copy that the original author has on his disk. It *does* matter where did you get your copy from, even if it may be difficult to prove. -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
