svn 14760 (new diff applet)

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:35:45PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > You can GPL it but you can't just remove the existing license/copyright
> > notice.
> 
> If we can't remove the existing license, then we can't GPL it.  The GPL says 
> it must be under exactly those terms, with nothing added and nothing removed.
> 
> Are you saying we can't produce a derived work that is _not_ under the BSD 
> license?  Therefore we cannot enforce the terms of the GPL on our derived 
> work (I.E. get source code to derived versions), because even our derived 
> version must be licensed BSD, no matter what changes we've made?

Whether you can remove the existing notice has nothing to do with
whether the notice applies to new code added.

Rich