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Re: Looking for an open source license..
From: |
Richard Tobin |
Subject: |
Re: Looking for an open source license.. |
Date: |
7 Jun 2006 09:50:38 GMT |
In article <854pyzf7tr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>The original copyright owner is still able to sue if his software is
>used without license. The license he granted to the person using it
>in the GPLed software (which might have been bought at a high price)
>does not magically extend to third recipients unless the redistributor
>chooses to sublicense under BSD.
I think the assumption was that the original author made it *publicly*
available under the BSD licence, and someone extracted portions of
that publicly-available code from the GPLed derivative work.
This would usually be pointless since you could get the original BSD
licensed code instead.
-- Richard
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., (continued)
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., John Hasler, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., Amanjit Gill, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., John Hasler, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., John Hasler, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/05
- Re: Looking for an open source license..,
Richard Tobin <=
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., John Hasler, 2006/06/10
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/10
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., John Hasler, 2006/06/10
- Re: Looking for an open source license.., David Kastrup, 2006/06/11
Re: Looking for an open source license.., alexander . terekhov, 2006/06/10
Re: Looking for an open source license.., Karen Hill, 2006/06/23