BSD licence

Lee Glidewell lee.glidewell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 07:07:06 BST 2008


On Tuesday 01 July 2008 11:02:05 pm Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> writes:
> > Changing anything from BSD to GPL is easy.  It's the reverse that's
> > impossible.
>
> No, it is not. Please read the BSD license. It explicitly does *not*
> allow you to remove the copyright headers and therefore relicense it.

Copyright headers and licensing terms are separate things. The BSD license is 
specifically designed to allow developers to close source an open project 
should their needs require this. That's the whole point of it. 

> And please be careful when giving legal advice to others.

Ahem.


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