From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 10:27: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05DB37B66F for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:54969 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 25 May 2000 19:26:22 +0200 Received: (qmail 1291 invoked by uid 1001); 25 May 2000 17:26:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:26:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Russell Nelson Cc: dewaz , osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what about clauses? Message-ID: <20000525192623.A1249@student.csd.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Russell Nelson , dewaz , osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <392DD1E3.D9B97147@ran.es> <14637.21827.71483.478077@desk.crynwr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14637.21827.71483.478077@desk.crynwr.com>; from nelson@crynwr.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:35:09PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > 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 > [snip BSD-license] Those clauses (the BSD-license) do not apply to the modifications that Peter made. They are distributed under whatever license Peter wants. So yes, the "BSD-parts" can be distributed freely, but not necessarily any modifications. (And seperating them can be very difficult since the distribution might be in binary form only.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message