Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:20:04 +0200 | From | Hannah Schroeter <> | Subject | Re: Wasting our Freedom |
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Hello!
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:19:41PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: >[...]
>If you take work that's under a dual-license and remove one license notice >from it when you create a derivative work, every recipient of that >derivative work still receives a dual license from the original author to >every protectable element still in the distributed work.
But you may *not* remove the license notices on GPL/BSD dual-licensed works. *Both* forbid removing the licensing terms.
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>2) You can remove a BSD license notice from BSD-only code. (The BSD license >prohibits this.)
The BSD license prohibits this anyway, regardless of whether BSD is the only license or not (dual-licensing). Heck, copyright law itself forbids it unless explicitly allowed.
>DS
Kind regards,
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