Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:43:08 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "Wayne Pascoe" <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question Message-ID: <000101c12220$1e8030e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian >T.Schellenberger >less free; GPL would therefore seem to forbid BSDing it. > >So I don't see how you can go in that direction. > You can because there is a loophole in the GPL. Since the author of the work retains copyright, he (or she) alone can re-license the work. If it's a cooperative distribution then all the authors must agree of course, but it can be done. This was intentional by RMS by the way and is discussed up on the gnu website in some obscure area. This is one of the reasons that the GNU Project strongly recommends assigning over the copyright of the distribution to The GNU Project. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > >-- >Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) >Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > >--------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- > >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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