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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!news.id.net!news.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!peltz From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 12 Dec 1995 21:16:13 GMT Organization: University Communications, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4akret$fk8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ6y7H.MIE@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a6fgo$6lg@agate.berkeley.edu> <DJ8xE2.2K9@kroete2.freinet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: medusa.cerl.uiuc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30200 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10365 comp.unix.advocacy:12156 gnu.misc.discuss:21981 In article <DJ8xE2.2K9@kroete2.freinet.de>, Erik Corry <erik@kroete2.freinet.de> wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: >: That is utterly absurd. The BSD copyright claims that you can't >: use the name of UCB or the Regents in advertising. That is, >: you can't put "FooBSD - the official operating system of >: the University of California, Berkeley!" all over your CD cover. > >It's not a hardship. It's not because people are _upset_ about >this requirement that they don't mix BSD and GPL code. It's >simply because it conflicts with the GPL, which says: > >> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise >> of the rights granted herein. > >This means the product cannot be released under both the BSD and >the GPL licenses, since the BSD license imposes a further >restriction on the recipient. I didn't see anywhere in the GPL where it granted the recipient the right to use the name "University of California, Berkeley". Now, there may be some additional requirements in the BSD copyright that conflict with the GPL, but that ain't one of them. -- Steve Peltz tricorn@uiuc.edu