[bip] MIT/BSD license question

[Glen Otero]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Titus Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:33:20AM -0700, Glen Otero wrote:
> -> 1) Do the BSD and MIT licenses allow someone to modify BSD/MIT
> -> licensed code to create a proprietary product, sell the product,  
> and
> -> *not* permit people to redistribute the new product?
>
> IANAL, but BSD/MIT does not restrict your ability to license your own
> code under whatever license you care to use.  So while you can't
> relicense the BSD/MIT code, you can place your own code under a
> restrictive license.
>
> -> 2) If 1) is true, then how does one keep the original license  
> intact
> -> and also include a license for the product that doesn't allow
> -> redistribution?
>
> I think you would just license your own code under a proprietary
> license.

Thanks. That's the conclusion I was drawing after reading the licenses.

Glen

>
> --titus
>
> p.s. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage people to
> *write* and *release* some code.  License discussions are all good and
> well, but ... what are we licensing? ;)
>