Theo de Raadt wrote:

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> For the record -- I was right and the Linux developers cannot change

> the licenses in any of those ways proposed in those diffs, or that

> conversation (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/28/157).

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> It is illegal to modify a license unless you are the owner/author,

> because it is a legal document.  

    With respect to both you and Eban, I  would disagree..
    The law requires complying with the license not preserving it.

    The license is a part of the copyrighted work.

    It grants users rights beyond those of copyright law.
    The ISC License requires little more than preserving the copyright

notice, not the license itself,

    And even that I would think is redundant as removing a copyright

notice would likely violate copyright law.
    BSD Licensed code has found its way into proprietary products, with

no availability of source - and no preservation

    of license.
    The claim of the Free Software people has always been that BSD is a

"License to Steal"
    I am not happy that the work of BSD developers is in essence being

co-opted by Linux developers.

    To me it seems lacking in integrity for the GPL crowd to do to the

BSD crowd what they have gone to great

    pains to prevent anyone doing to them. It certainly violates the

golden rule.
    BUT I am having a hard time convincing myself that taking BSD/ISC

Licensed code - and relicensing it while preservng the

    copyright notice, violates the BSD/ISC License.
    Whether it is honest or not, it still seems to conform to my

understanding of both the spirit and the letter of the license.
    BSD advocates claim their license is more free because it allows you

to do most anything with BSD code.

    Am I missing the part where that freedom includes  removing the

license  ?
     How is what Linux developers seem to be doing less legal or ethical

that what many commercial developers have already done ?
     If this is not one of the freedom's of BSD Licensed code, then

craft your license to prohibit it.
    If I am mis-understanding the license I appologize,  but my view  of

this  dispute is that Linux developers are unethically and immorally,

    but quite legally doing  to BSD Licensed code pretty much what the

BSD License allows them to.