Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:10:45 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: davidw@master.debian.org, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux 'distribution' Message-ID: <36CF4F05.A33B157E@softweyr.com> References: <199902202341.QAA21335@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > But would it be infected with the GPL virus? I doubt anyone here in > > BSD-land would be at all interested, if it were to be. > > [ ... ] > > > I doubt you'll hear an considerable shouting over it. Our license > > allows you to do whatever you want with the code, including compile > > it, run it, GPL it, smoke it, or get it tattooed onto your behind. > > You just have to give credit where it's due. > > You *can't* "GPL it". The GPL specifically states "no other restrictions". > The "claim credit caluse" (or "advertising clause", as it commonly > referred to) is a restriction that results in a license conflict. > > Specifically, sentence 2 of section 6 of: > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > > reads: > > You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' > exercise of the rights granted herein. I stand corrected. There isn't anything in the Berkeley license that prevents you from distributing the software however you want. There is, obviously, something in the GPL which prevents you from attaching the GPL to *FREE* code. ;^) Now that's funny. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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