BSD licence
Reinhard Tartler
siretart at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 2 10:14:21 BST 2008
"Henning Eggers" <henning at eggers.name> writes:
> Reinhard Tartler sagte:
>> That's the important difference. Mackenzie talked about 'changeing' a
>> work from BSD to GPL. That's different to what you way.
>
> But as the GPL is more restrictive than BSD, adding GPL to BSD effectively
> overrules the BSD, doesn't it? So afterwards the file is bound by the more
> restrictive GPL which is almost the same as changing the license, isn't
> it?
True, but that's only adding restrictions, not removing already existing
ones. Please read the BSD license, it does not allow removal of the
license text.
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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