GUI server tools?

[Christopher Vance]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:58:14AM +0800, John wrote:
>I can release code under the GPL and comply with all those clauses. Can't I?

Yes, of course.  You could even sell it and make money.

>The GPL imposes further restrictions on (re)distributors in the greater 
>interest of recipients. I can't think of how it the GPL negates any of 
>those BSD conditions.
>
>If my GPL product has untouched BSD-licenced files, that does not affect 
>the licence for the product as a whole. RHL itself is GPL, but not all 
>its contents are.

I meant that people can copy the BSD bits out of your GPL product, and
do whatever the BSD license permits.  That includes modifying and
distributing it without the requirement to make source available.  Of
course, they can't do that to your original GPL bits.

I also meant that if you've modified the BSD bits in your GPL product,
those modified bits are still BSD, since only the copyright holder can
change the license.  The freedom to further modify and distribute
without shipping source can't be taken away.

As GPL hardliners may say - if you don't like the license, you can
always reimplement those features yourself, under your own preferred
license.

Anyway, each license has good reasons to exist, and each does positive
things.  One license does not fit all.

-- 
Christopher Vance