[bip] MIT/BSD license question

[Bruce Southey]

Hi,
You probably read the information provided by the Software Freedom Law
Center (SFLC) on including permissive-licensed in GPL code (or probably any
code that is more restrictive than the BSD license) at:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html

Also, please take very careful note the terms of the BSD/MIT license
actually used just in case there are no surprises (like unexpected
additional terms).

Note also that the whole package may be under a different license provided
components have compatible licenses. Thus, the Linux kernel is GPL V2 but
contains code under other licenses like BSD.

BRuce



On 9/27/07, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> 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.
>
> --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? ;)
>
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