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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.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) 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: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 02:36:04 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5cua6n$8gn@camel2.mindspring.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clgth$et2@qnx.com> <5cokjc$amq@web.nmti.com> <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net> <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 1 Feb 1997 02:36:07 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155633 comp.os.linux.networking:66942 comp.os.linux.setup:95024 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2188 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51602 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264974 cjs@cynic.portal.ca (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. I think it's this: The BSD license says that you have to give credit, visibly. The GNU license says that it can't be used with a "more restrictive" license. The BSD credit thing is "more restrictive" than the GNU GPL. Feel free to correct me if I botched it. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM House of Retrocomputing: - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM "Rebooting with command" -- from a SPARCstation boot prom