Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

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To: <misc@...>, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@...>
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2007 - 5:32 am

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[..]

Yes, indeed you can choose between the two licenses, but you CANNOT
*REMOVE* either of them. Only the Copyright holder who put that license
on it can remove them. This is also what both the GPL and BSD/ISC
licenses state very clearly.

Because of the choice between licenses you can either choose to adhere
to the GPL (thus forcing you to open up your changes) or alternatively
you can choose the BSD and either give your patches back or not.

Still, you can't remove either of the licenses, you have to pass on the
rights you have gotten from the original copyright holder down to
anybody else you are giving this too. And especially if you would be
giving the file down to the author only under GPL your are limiting
their freedom, which is not the intent of the original copyright holder
and also something you fortunately can't be doing.

If you don't like the licensing, then don't use the code at all, don't
even look at it.

Greets,
Jeroen

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That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Theo de Raadt, (Fri Aug 31, 9:40 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Reyk Floeter, (Mon Sep 3, 7:23 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 1:19 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Hannah Schroeter, (Sun Sep 2, 8:05 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Ihar Hrachyshka, (Sun Sep 2, 8:25 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 11:42 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Marco Peereboom, (Sun Sep 2, 12:00 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Hannah Schroeter, (Sun Sep 2, 10:58 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 8:15 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 1:39 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 5:59 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Hannah Schroeter, (Sun Sep 2, 8:07 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 11:38 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Dave Anderson, (Mon Sep 3, 12:35 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Mon Sep 3, 3:42 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Tue Sep 4, 12:12 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Tue Sep 4, 5:18 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, J.C. Roberts, (Wed Sep 5, 2:56 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Marco Peereboom, (Tue Sep 4, 11:15 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jacob Yocom-Piatt, (Tue Sep 4, 12:37 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Simon 'corecode' Schubert..., (Sun Sep 2, 12:15 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 12:22 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Marco Peereboom, (Sun Sep 2, 11:57 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Greg Thomas, (Tue Sep 4, 12:21 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 6:08 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 6:29 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Marco Peereboom, (Sat Sep 1, 6:56 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 7:34 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Siegbert Marschall, (Sun Sep 2, 5:15 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 7:49 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Siegbert Marschall, (Sun Sep 2, 4:56 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 6:51 pm)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 6:40 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 6:49 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel A. Ramaley, (Tue Sep 4, 12:37 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Tue Sep 4, 1:38 pm)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Tue Sep 4, 3:52 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Timo Schoeler, (Tue Sep 4, 4:08 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Darrin Chandler, (Tue Sep 4, 4:27 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 6:55 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 1, 7:39 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Siegbert Marschall, (Sun Sep 2, 5:17 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 2, 7:44 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 7:46 pm)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeroen Massar, (Sun Sep 2, 5:32 am)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Tue Sep 4, 10:55 pm)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 4:25 pm)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 9:54 am)
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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing , Theo de Raadt, (Sat Sep 1, 10:14 am)
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