Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
: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 Commercia

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
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

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Petr Janda
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 s

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Petr Janda wrote: > Hey all, > In the recent issue between OpenBSD and Linux wireless about the Atheros > driver, GPL folks say they are allowed to relicense BSD-ed code provided > they leave the copyright and the license in the code. There are some BSD > folks who claim th

Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Petr Janda
Hey all, In the recent issue between OpenBSD and Linux wireless about the Atheros driver, GPL folks say they are allowed to relicense BSD-ed code provided they leave the copyright and the license in the code. There are some BSD folks who claim that the BSD license doesn't allow to relicense the