Re: future of quail
[Context restored]
At 3:00 Uhr +0900 16.02.2011, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
At 17:06 Uhr +0100 15.02.2011, Hauke Fath wrote:
>At 16:36 Uhr +0100 15.02.2011, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> The whole point of BSD is to allow people to use software freely,
>>> whether they want to push a proprietary agenda or an FSF agenda, or
>>> just want to get on with the job.
>>
>>You'll find that this is not the normal BSD proponent's opinion. They
>>are not bothered about proprietary rereleases, but are quite annoyed to
>>see parts of their software crop up in GPLed software.
>
> ... stripped of the respective BSD license, as you failed to
> add. Because that's the usual problem in those cases[1].
Please don't spread FUD. The case you cite is not a "usual" problem
with incorporation of BSD code in a GPL project.
Right.
But that's not what I said - although the way you snipped the context makes
it look like that.
It is a usual problem, though, _when_ "BSD proponents" get "quite annoyed
with incorporation of BSD code in a GPL project", as David put it.
As I mentioned, and you snipped,
the two-clause BSD license was designed precisely to be
interoperable with the GPL.
so the gist of the BSD license, "don't blame me, if it breaks; give credit
where credit is due; besides that, do what you want with the code" of
course extends to GPLed projects.
hauke
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