Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc3

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <1091636850.2792.19.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > relicense under 3-clause BSD under BSD or GPL anyway.  So, unless I'm
> > missing something, the "or GPL" probably doesn't do anything more than
> > make explicit something that was allowed already.
> 
> not entirely; in a dual license scheme one has the freedom to ignore one
> of the two licenses and also to place derived work only under the one
> chosen.
> 

The BSD license allows you to do that anyway.

> That and it's outright rude to take someone else's code and
> relicense it.

Rude, yes; that of course makes a lot of companies which have done
this with BSD very rude :)

	-hpa
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