Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:46:52 -0500 | | From | Ben Collins <> | | Subject | Re: BSD Licensed files in Linux kernel. |
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> > The file in question is copyright UCB. > > UCB has recently dropped the problematical clause (3) of the license, > > and the BSD license without that does not conflict with the GPL. UCB > > as the copyright holder can drop that. They did. So there is no problem. > > What about the view that the GPL prohibits sub-licensing (such as what > the UCB file has) ? > > What about the view that the UCB copyright places restrictions (albeit > very light) which are not present in the GPL ? Specifically this: > > * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > Wouldn't this fly in the face of section 6 of the GPL ?
You are assuming that the "kernel" is one big piece of software under one big license. There are a lot of components, and each can have it's own license. This has nothing to do with relicensing, since that is the original license for that component.
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