Re: BSD Licensed files in Linux kernel.

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 17:13:19 EST

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Darren Reed wrote:

>> The file in question is copyright UCB.
>> UCB has recently dropped the problematical clause (3) of the license,
>> and the BSD license without that does not conflict with the GPL. UCB
>> as the copyright holder can drop that. They did. So there is no problem.
>
>What about the view that the GPL prohibits sub-licensing (such as what
>the UCB file has) ?
>
>What about the view that the UCB copyright places restrictions (albeit
>very light) which are not present in the GPL ? Specifically this:
>
> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>
>Wouldn't this fly in the face of section 6 of the GPL ?

Retaining the copyright notices in the source code does not
violate the GPL. It makes sure that the author of the code, has
his copyright notice kept on his code. Licensing and copyright
are two completely different issues. 

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