Re: pppd and plugin license

[Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca>]

For two licenses, the restrictions of both apply. For GPL, if the other
license restricts anything that GPL allows, then GPL does not give you a
license. Thus you have to see if there is anything in the BSD license which
restricts what the GPL grants. Also you need to check which GPL license (2 3
Library,...)

If you have real question about the law, a lawyer is the best source of
advice (one that is competent in Copyright and licensing law).


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On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Waller, Claus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the pppd and the plugin licenses.
>
> As I can see the pppd has as license the old style BSD 4 Clause license and some of the plugins which are loaded as a dynamic library are GPL licensed.
> So my question is: Is it true that these licenses are incompatible to each other in the context of the pppd + a loaded plugin?