Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754757AbXIQLUV (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:20:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752192AbXIQLUI (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:20:08 -0400 Received: from mxintern.schlund.de ([212.227.126.204]:62873 "EHLO mxintern.schlund.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbXIQLUG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:20:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:20:04 +0200 From: Hannah Schroeter To: David Schwartz Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom Message-ID: <20070917112004.GB31443@schlund.de> Mail-Followup-To: Hannah Schroeter , David Schwartz , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" References: <20070916203926.GA17863@schlund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Schlund + Partner AG X-UI-Msg-Verification: 2eeaf3fcdff4bc9b50aed7304b3fb310 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 32 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. >[...] >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, Hannah. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/