Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:35:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> To: dewaz <dewaz@ran.es> Cc: osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what about clauses? Message-ID: <14637.21827.71483.478077@desk.crynwr.com> In-Reply-To: <392DD1E3.D9B97147@ran.es> References: <392DD1E3.D9B97147@ran.es>
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dewaz writes:
> 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
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