> 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.)
Speaking about open software, these licenses are indeed differents, but
both are equally unable to prevent the source from being used as high
quality scratch for corporate reimplementation. ;-)
Gérard.
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