Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:42:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card? |
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On 25-Oct-99 Steven Roberts wrote: > Only thing to remember is that you technically can't go back (i.e. you > can go from BSD to GPL, but not from GPL to BSD). Not to say going back > to BSD doesn't happen. Of course most folks don't care as long as it > stays in the OpenSource community (I have seen it and based on some > comments from ESR recently he has seen it to).
You can't change the license on the code. If you use freer than GPL code as part of a GPL source base, you can distribute the whole lot as GPL. You can still distribute the non-GPL code under its non-GPL license if you extract it from the GPL source base. If someone modifies the non-GPL code, they create a derivative work which is still covered by the original license. You can't add a patch to non-GPL code and declare the patch to be GPL, nor does anyone other than the copyrigth holder have the right to change the license.
J
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