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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 23:12:37 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32F2C2B5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clgth$et2@qnx.com> <5cokjc$amq@web.nmti.com> <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net> <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155684 comp.os.linux.networking:66975 comp.os.linux.setup:95069 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2191 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51614 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265025 Curt Sampson wrote: > > In article <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net>, > Mouth of the South <mouth@ibm.net> wrote: > > >If we try to apply the GPL, which mandates > >that source code must be freely available, to BSD licensed derivative > >works, which allows it to be secretly hoarded, then GPL would forcibly > >overrule the BSD license and nullify its terms. > > Um...exactly which of the terms would it nullify? (Please quote > the exact text.) I'm not as familiar with the GPL as with the BSD > licencing terms, but I don't see why a piece of software could not > be under the GPL and the BSD terms at the same time. > The only thing that I know of is that GPL has a restriction that you can add no other restrictions to the redistribution terms. BSD does have some credits and attribution clauses (which are not included in GPL.) I am not a lawyer -- so take it for what it is worth :-). John