Re: BSD licence

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Henning Eggers <henning@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> changing anything from BSD to GPL is easy.  It's the reverse that's
>>> impossible.
>>>     
>> No, it is not. Please read the BSD license. It explicitly does *not*
>> allow you to remove the copyright headers and therefore relicense it.
>>   
> Well, the BSD license only requires the headers to remain in the source
> and the binaries, it does not forbid adding more headers and
> licences. In fact, it doesn't say anything about how derivative work
> should be licensed, as the GPL does. So I should think that *adding* a
> GPL license to a file that already has a BSD license does not violate
> that license.

That's the important difference. Mackenzie talked about 'changeing' a
work from BSD to GPL. That's different to what you way.

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