--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Quandary Google for: "incorporate BSD code" proprietary OR "closed source"
And skim.
Thanks. Currently reading ;)
- You agree to turn over your first-born child to Evil NiteLite inc.
ROFLMAO! :-D
Well, that's how BSD works everywhere. That's how companys can sub-license it into their own code, and that's how the GPL works with it, too.
An excerpt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing
Traditionally, Linux associated software is licensed under the GPL, whilst BSD derivatives often use the BSD license. Code licensed under the BSD license can be relicensed under the GPL (the BSD license is said to be "GPL-compatible") without securing the consent of all original authors; but code under the GPL cannot be relicensed under the BSD license without securing the consent of all original authors, as the BSD license does not necessarily require the source code to be again freely available.
This is what I know already. That's why code from Linux will never be used in the BSD derivatives.
See GPL section 2.b: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof,
*to be licensed as a whole
(at no charge to all third parties)
under the terms of this License.*
(emphasis mine)
The whole thing. Including your BSD code. ALL of it has to be licensed as GPL to be distributed.
Okay, I understand the text, but I cannot understand how someone (the project using GPL as their license) can take away a right (to use the code freely under the terms of the BSDL) from me or my licensees.
The point here is not what is written in the GPL as I did not put my code under GPL. Furthermore "*sub*licensing" sounds to me as if the BSDL does not lose its validity through the "process" of sublicensing. It sounds to me as if the GPL - which offers only a subset of the rights I granted the licensees by BSDLing my code - is just relevant in the context of the project but does not touch the rights granted to users (by me) of the particular used (BSDLed) modules.
Still reading ... so some of my above prejudices may be gone after it.
I would surely enjoy personal email conversation with you ;) ... because I suspect that the other list members may perhaps be bored from this discussion (already).
Cheers,
Oliver