Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Oct 1999 01:15:50 GMT

Followup to: <XFMail.991025154216.jeremy@goop.org>
By author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> You can't change the license on the code. If you use freer than GPL
> code as part of a GPL source base, you can distribute the whole lot
> as GPL. You can still distribute the non-GPL code under its non-GPL
> license if you extract it from the GPL source base. If someone
> modifies the non-GPL code, they create a derivative work which is
> still covered by the original license. You can't add a patch to
> non-GPL code and declare the patch to be GPL, nor does anyone other
> than the copyrigth holder have the right to change the license.
>

Yes you can. That is, in fact, the main distinction between BSD
(where you can do exactly that) and GPL (where you cannot.)

-hpa

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