[GNUz] A BSD / GPL license issue

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:09:41PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 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.

there are two versions of the BSD license, and when you talk about it,
you must make clear which of the two versions is meant, otherwise your
comment is missleading.

see here for details:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

only the original 4clause BSD license is incompatible with the GPL, the
new 3clause version does not have such issues.

greetings, martin.
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