Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:16:29 -0600 From: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net> To: "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>, "FreeBSD User Questions List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD license question Message-ID: <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJOENAEDAA.B-Morgan@concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <20010809144451.R31560-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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It depends on how the license is written. The BSD license is less restrictive than the GPL license so you may be able to go BSD to GPL, but not GPL to BSD. I'm not a lawyer so don't take my word for it. Carefully examine the text of the licenses. Brad -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Clarke Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:47 PM To: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: OT: BSD license question I realize this is off-topic, but please help me out here. I'm a netatalk developer. Netatalk is currently BSD-licensed code. There is a thread on the developers list to change netatalk from BSD to GPL. Is this legal? Can someone arbitrarily change the license of a project if they're not the author? I don't think so. Seems to me Microsoft would have taken Linux, said it's now BSD licensed, and used it in Windows XP ( ;-) ). Thanks for some clarification. Joe Clarke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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