linux-kernel - Re: Wasting our Freedom

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Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:20:04 +0200
From:	Hannah Schroeter <hannah@...lund.de>
To:	David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>
Cc:	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom

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.
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