Dave Jones apparently doesn't think BSD is GPL-compatibleeither...

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Aug 14 13:27:57 UTC 2006


On Monday 14 August 2006 5:30 am, Johan Adolfsson wrote:
> > > > Yeah, we need to rewrite some of the BusyBox apps for 1.3...
> 
> Why take his statement so seriously?

Because this is an issue I was worried about anyway?

> > > I would have thought, "must retain the above copyright notice" might
> > > have a different meaning than say, licenced under the above terms.
> >
> > The GPL says you can't add additional restrictions.
> 
> Having to retain the Copyright notice is not an additional restriction
> compared to the GPL, you have to do that in the GPL as well.
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Because the BSD license text is not a copyright notice, it's a license?  
(Copyright and license aren't the same thing.)

Rob
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