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Re: Licensing question about the BSD
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Isaac |
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Re: Licensing question about the BSD |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:55:57 -0500 |
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On 03 Aug 2005 13:44:55 -0400, Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>
>> Drivative works of BSD'd code (derivative literary works [modulo the AFC
>> test] under copyright law) are subject to BSD.
>
> That's really interesting. What legal jurisdiction are you in?
> U.S. law is different. Here, derivative works have separate copyrights
> independent of copyrights on the material they're derived from. Since
> the BSD license allows code to be used for any purpose, the purpose of
> creating a derivative work and distributing it under a different license
> is allowed. Material contributed by the author of the derivative work
> would not be subject to the BSD license.
Derivative works have separate copyrights, but distributing an inseparable
derivative or collective work, such as a program in object form requires
complying with the copyright/license provisions of the original material.
The BSD license does have terms, just not onerous ones. The advertising
clause was a potentially onerous one.
Isaac
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, (continued)
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/03
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD,
Isaac <=
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, John Hasler, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/08/04