From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Beyond DPDK 2.0 Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:07:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20150427090719.00ce2e04@urahara> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54D1A917@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <20150424175124.GA30624@mhcomputing.net> <553B9706.1060904@bisdn.de> <20150426215644.GA9021@neilslaptop.think-freely.org> <6F92C985-29AC-48D0-A6A5-14738F04E313@netgate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Jim Thompson Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6F92C985-29AC-48D0-A6A5-14738F04E313-jiyf0hk6h8BBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:29:13 -0500 Jim Thompson wrote: > I, on the other hand, am fairly certain that you can not =E2=80=9Crelicen= se BSD licensed code under the GPL (or any other license). >=20 > Were this true at law, then the opposite would also be possible. (=E2=80= =9CDon=E2=80=99t like the license? Just fork!=E2=80=9D) IANAL but it is possible to go from BSD to GPL and it is done all the time. The other way is not possible. You only have to see the OpenOffice -> Libre= Office as an example. LibreOffice can freely take anything out of OpenOffice but OpenOffice can not take from LibrOffice.