From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 23 23:38:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9F437B417 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0890FBC8C; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11097; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:38:25 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBO7cZh28801; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:38:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Mike Meyer" , dwalton@acm.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does Linux violate the GPL? References: <20011223153232.4b562a74.dwalton@acm.org> <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 23 Dec 2001 23:38:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Mike Meyer" writes: > [...] I.e. - if I take T and add S - neither of which I > hold a copyright to - I can legally use it without violating either > license, but I can't let anyone else have a copy. I suppose Mike knows this, but just to avoid misunderstanding: The reason he may not publish it is only because it would infringe the GPL (according to our interpretation). The BSD license allows the publication (but not the GPLing of the BSD'd code). Also, almost all GPL licensors allow it in practice (often at the price of mislabeling the whole work as a GPL'd work). P.S. I'm going to try using "publish" instead of "distribute" (the GPL's term) because "publishing" is a more accurate term for the copyright being mentioned, which 17 USC 106 ("Exclusive rights in copyrighted works") writes as "to distribute ... to the public". (Distribution among employees of a company is another question that is debated in GNU forums (it's generally allowed, but the GPL is unclear, as usual, and as it is about unpublished derivations), but I see no need to delve into it in a BSD forum.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message