Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Joerg Schilling > <Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> > "as a whole" means generally BUT allowing for exceptions. > >> > >> OK, great. That clears it up then. > > > > Maybe this helps: > > > > The BSD license does not permit to relicense the code, so you cannot put BSD > > code under the GPL. > > Yes, if you mean what is described here as 'the original 4-clause' > license, or BSD-old: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Do you like to discuss things or do you like to throw smoke grenades? > > The BSD license permits to mix a source file under BSD license with some lines > > under a different license if you document this. But this is not done in all > > cases I am aware of. > > But you can't add the 'advertising requirement' of the 4-clause BSD to > something with a GPL component because additional restrictions are > prohibited. > > > Up to now, nobody could explain me how a mixture of GPL and BSD can be legal as > > this would require (when following the GPL) to relicense the BSD code under GPL > > in order to make the whole be under GPL. > > > > In other words, if you can legally combine BSD code with GPL code, you can do > > with GPL and CDDL as well. > > You can't do either if you are talking about the BSD-old license > (which also isn't accepted as open source by the OSI). Fortunately, > the owners of the original/official BSD were nice guys and removed the > GPL incompatible clause, with the Revised BSD License being recognized > as both open source and GPL-compatible. But that hasn't - and > probably can't - happen with CDDL, so the only working option is dual > licensing. It seems that you are not interested in a sesrious discussion. The 4-clause BSD license is not a valid OSS license and all original BSD code was converted by addict of the president of UC-Berleley. So you claim that there is 4-clause BSD code in the Linux kernel? You are kidding :-( Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos