From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267442AbUHDVaC (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:30:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267443AbUHDVaC (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:30:02 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:50634 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267442AbUHDV2j (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:28:39 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc3 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <4110FB0E.230CE613@users.sourceforge.net> <20040804161046.GD19282@fieldses.org> <1091636850.2792.19.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1091654866 806 127.0.0.1 (4 Aug 2004 21:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:27:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <1091636850.2792.19.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> By author: Arjan van de Ven 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