[GNUz] A BSD / GPL license issue

Nick Rout gnuz@inode.co.nz
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:26:00 +1200


On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:09:41 +1200
Jim Cheetham wrote:

> 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.
> 

seems to me its more like an honesty isue frankly.


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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>