New Package: x2x
Per Bjornsson
perbj at stanford.edu
Sun Jun 19 16:35:52 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 07:00 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:09 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > IANAL. I'm not sure what to do about the two licenses. It seems to me
> > that by incorperating code that's under the GPL that should make the
> > package GPL. So that's what I did. Better suggestion?
> >
> > Jack
> >
> IANAL as well. I think there is a conflict in licenses but I don't
> think we can resolve it. I think upstream has to change their license,
> change their code, or get permission to use the GPL'd code under a
> license compatible with the BSD license.
No. As long as it's the modern BSD without advertising clause, a
combined work (containing code of BSD-licensed and GPL-licensed origin)
can be licensed under the GPL. So as long as the package is distributed
under the GPL there is no problem. As far as I can tell Jack did exactly
the right thing.
(Of course, IANAL either but this is so commonly discussed that I think
it's safe...)
/Per
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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
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