Re: Wasting our Freedom

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:35:12PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:29:56PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> > 
> > >...
> > > Again, one more time:
> > > 
> > > 1) You can obtain, from the GPL, the right to remove a BSD 
> > > license notice.
> > >...
>  
> > I hope noone believes this bullshit you are spreading.
> 
> How do you figure?
> 
> > When you incorporate BSD licenced code into a GPL'ed project it's 
> > impossible that the GPL could give you any permission to remove the 
> > BSD licence notice.
> 
> That's right. I never said otherwise. I did not say that under all conceivable circumstances, the GPL gives you the right to remove a BSD license notice.
>...

You did say otherwise.

Your claim was that "You can obtain, *from the GPL*, the right to remove
a BSD license notice."

This claim is bullshit.

You can get this right from the copyright holder, e.g. when he
dual-licenced his code, but you can not get this right from the GPL.

> DS

cu
Adrian

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