Date: 09 Aug 2001 22:14:22 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question Message-ID: <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes: > Right, this I understand. The issue in question is that someone who is > not the owner wants to relicense the software. IANAL, but if I remember right, under the bsd licence, anyone can fork a project into another project. At the point of the fork, they could place the new project under the licence of their choice. This would mean that joe random hacker could fork the netatalk project into netatalk-gpl and licence this project under the GPL. Personally, I don't see the benefit of doing this. Various people, including the Ogg Vorbis team have moved things from GPL to BSD style licences to stay friendly with businesses. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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