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| From: | Hyman Rosen |
| Subject: | Re: GPL misappropriation |
| Date: | Tue, 04 May 2010 16:09:42 -0000 |
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On 3/22/2010 3:41 PM, RJack wrote:
That will never happen. Copyrights are exclusive rights and cannot be licensed by anyone except the *owner* of a copyright. Releasing BSD licensed code under the GPL is simply attempting to steal it.
BSD-licensed code gives others the right to create derivative works without requiring that those derivative works be licensed under the same terms.
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