Hi,<br>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: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html">http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
</a><br><br>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). <br><br>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.
<br><br>BRuce<br><br><pre><br></pre><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Titus Brown</b> <<a href="mailto:titus@caltech.edu">titus@caltech.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:33:20AM -0700, Glen Otero wrote:<br>-> 1) Do the BSD and MIT licenses allow someone to modify BSD/MIT<br>-> licensed code to create a proprietary product, sell the product, and<br>-> *not* permit people to redistribute the new product?
<br><br>IANAL, but BSD/MIT does not restrict your ability to license your own<br>code under whatever license you care to use. So while you can't<br>relicense the BSD/MIT code, you can place your own code under a<br>restrictive license.
<br><br>-> 2) If 1) is true, then how does one keep the original license intact<br>-> and also include a license for the product that doesn't allow<br>-> redistribution?<br><br>I think you would just license your own code under a proprietary
<br>license.<br><br>--titus<br><br>p.s. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage people to<br>*write* and *release* some code. License discussions are all good and<br>well, but ... what are we licensing? ;)<br>
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