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

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 13:59:28 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:27 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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.)

IANAL but I still don't see how keeping the license text is an additinal
restriction. You have to keep the license text in GPL too.

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Natanael Copa




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