From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc3
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:27:46 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cerkci$p5$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1091636850.2792.19.camel@laptop.fenrus.com
Followup to: <1091636850.2792.19.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
By author: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > relicense under 3-clause BSD under BSD or GPL anyway. So, unless I'm
> > missing something, the "or GPL" probably doesn't do anything more than
> > make explicit something that was allowed already.
>
> not entirely; in a dual license scheme one has the freedom to ignore one
> of the two licenses and also to place derived work only under the one
> chosen.
>
The BSD license allows you to do that anyway.
> That and it's outright rude to take someone else's code and
> relicense it.
Rude, yes; that of course makes a lot of companies which have done
this with BSD very rude :)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-04 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-03 22:09 Linux 2.6.8-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2004-08-04 12:07 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-08-04 12:13 ` Karol Kozimor
2004-08-04 12:40 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-05 15:10 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-08-05 22:19 ` szonyi calin
2004-08-04 12:57 ` Gene Heskett
2004-08-04 12:44 ` Juergen Stuber
2004-08-04 13:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-04 15:04 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-08-04 16:00 ` James Morris
2004-08-04 16:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-08-04 16:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-04 18:19 ` Patrick McFarland
2004-08-04 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-05 13:54 ` Patrick McFarland
2004-08-04 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-08-04 18:37 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc3 - BSD licensing Fruhwirth Clemens
2004-08-04 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-04 19:26 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2004-08-04 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-05 12:33 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-08-05 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-05 17:45 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-05 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-05 21:37 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-05 21:08 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-06 9:47 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-08-06 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-07 10:19 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-08-07 10:38 ` Patrick McFarland
2004-08-07 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-05 12:32 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc3 Jari Ruusu
2004-08-04 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-05 15:04 ` [PATCH] Drop asm i586 AES code James Morris
2004-08-04 15:08 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-04 18:52 ` [patch] 2.6.8-rc3: fix modular kernel with gcc 2.95 Adrian Bunk
2004-08-06 19:57 ` 2.6.8-rc3: MPT Fusion compile error with PROC_FS=n Adrian Bunk
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