Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:43:31 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing |
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Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: >> Jason Dixon wrote: >>> Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must >>> remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your >>> license, but the original copyright and license permission remains >>> intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD >>> code and have no problem understanding this. Why is this so difficult >>> for the Linux brain share to absorb? >> Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing? > > Maybe because Reyk's code was never dual-licensed?
And yet a good portion of Theo's response, in particular his accusations of Alan Cox exhorting people to break the law, were directly related to dual licensing.
Jeff
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