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Re: Licenses again...


From: Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:19:49 +1000

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:42:48 pm you wrote:
> The code has to have significant additions or modifications to be able to
> add your own copyright to the main part of the code.
>
> (As an example, should someone who fixes spelling and grammar and adds and
> changes a few sentences to a 100-page open source book be able to pretend
> that code is theirs?)
>
> Some of the code in question had dual licensing. In that case, both
> licenses should be included even when distributed.
>
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed


But does the BSDL allow the code to be relicensed? ie. i am a GPL dev, and i 
take a file ftp.c which is BSD licensed. Can I wrap the code in GPL license 
(though preserving the BSD copyright and license in there)?

The BSD license doesn't indicate that this is allowed.

Petr



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