From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 9:34:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.crynwr.com (ns1.crynwr.com [192.203.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 733BF37C835 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 09:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nelson@crynwr.com) Received: (qmail 32712 invoked from network); 25 May 2000 16:35:11 -0000 Received: from desk.crynwr.com (qmailr@206.150.82.98) by ns.crynwr.com with SMTP; 25 May 2000 16:35:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 5561 invoked by uid 501); 25 May 2000 16:35:10 -0000 From: Russell Nelson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:35:09 -0400 (EDT) To: dewaz Cc: osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what about clauses? In-Reply-To: <392DD1E3.D9B97147@ran.es> References: <392DD1E3.D9B97147@ran.es> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14637.21827.71483.478077@desk.crynwr.com> X-Face: $K'YURj"g6ImvqTS_=]8)gqh!5;ElY<[.Rao%j8r+]iUfE{%|v%F<=mcq<6l{K=~mf&#:?" nslS]U~|x{2V=Eex_I#"9K~9)>?m7Lm={(j_&)SX~fzg&ST~P%QUhc{1p]c3@Zn1u*PZlkHM**X^vV l>GkB5y^Kz%w5p~^uDue]hL&ke,N;+Q Hi again! > What I don't understand about changing BSD to propietary is how is that > possible,I mean that if Peter gets the BSD licensed program from Tom > ,and modifies and distributes it, Peter should do it according to the > license that Tom joined the program(BSD) > That license says that Peter can distribute a modified version if he > includes in that distribution the copyright notice,those two clauses and > the disclaimer.Right? Yup. > Thus the new Peter's program gets the second clause which says that you > can distribute the program with some conditions.Right? > So,Why not Tom could distributes his modified program? > Thanks again for your knowledge and patience. Good question. Anybody else know the answer? License reproduced below. I speculate that it keys off the distinction between "retain" and "reproduce". -russ Copyright 1994-1999 FreeBSD, Inc. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1.Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2.Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -- -russ nelson http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | can force other people to Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | do for you..." -Perry M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message