Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card? | Date | 26 Oct 1999 01:15:50 GMT |
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Followup to: <XFMail.991025154216.jeremy@goop.org> By author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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. >
Yes you can. That is, in fact, the main distinction between BSD (where you can do exactly that) and GPL (where you cannot.)
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