27 Jun
2005
27 Jun
'05
5:04 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:53:07AM -0700,
magnus(a)itkonsult-olsen.com wrote:
I know you can make lgpl to gpl that is not the
problem. reactos main licen is gpl. right. And gpl
say you are not allown to change a sublicen to
another licen. right.
Not quite, no. The GPL says that if you use GPL code,
everything that you release that uses that GPL code
must also be GPL. Thus (BSD + LGPL + GPL) -> GPL
when it's distributed. BSD must be sublicensed, and
LGPL must have it's GPL license conversion excercised.
You no longer have the full BSD rights in the
distributed code anymore, if you download it all as a
whole.
than mean all other modules that are using a diffent
licen like lgpl as wine dll does. it will become a
sublicen.
I reiterate that it is not a sublicense in the case of
the LGPL.
And 3d part like hotlix can not change any sublicen
that reactos is using. they must release with same
licen.
... they must release everything as GPL, if that's
what you're trying to say ...
But if we in ros have change lgpl to gpl that is
allown. or if hotlix did take the source direcly
from wine. often are we using modify wine dll files
and some part of the code will never goes back to
wine, for it is reactos specfiy so it will working
in reactos or windows, that will not work in wine
under linux.
And none of these will have licensing issues.
Some other dll are under bsd licen, I have not check
see if they have change that licen. but problade
they have.
... And they would actually HAVE to change the license
of the BSD code to be GPL, unless they downloaded the
BSD code separately, or downloaded the BSD portions in
separate, discreet sections. Why? Because you
distribute ReactOS, as a whole, under GPL. BSD/no
advert gives you enough rights to sublicense as GPL.
Thus, you can include BSD code into a GPL project, and
the BSD code thus distributed is no longer BSD -- it's
been sublicensed out as GPL.
It would be totally correct of them to mark every file
in their SVN as being distributed under the GPL
(otherwise, ReactOS is doing something that is non-GPL
compliant). They also have the option of discreetly
downloading all of the sections that are non-GPL, and
reconstructing those sections in order to retain the
original licenses (though there's little point in
that). But in either case, they aren't doing anything
wrong with either the licensing or the sublicensing.
Since they're distributing the whole project as GPL,
the point is moot -- since you distribute all of the
files as GPL, then they can distribute the files
(modified or not) as GPL. If they can't, then neither
can you -- if they're distributing everything as GPL,
and their out of compliance, then you must've been out
of compliance to begin with.
-- Travis
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