[GNUz] A BSD / GPL license issue

Jim Cheetham gnuz@inode.co.nz
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:09:41 +1200


http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/18/1557202&from=rss

g4l (GPL license) was purportedly stolen from g4u (BSD).

This shows some ways in which the GPL and BSD licenses have to interact
- it's not possible to fork a BSD itam and re-release it as GPL, because
there are incompatabilities.