[gambit-list] BSD license

Alex Queiroz asandroq at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 20:38:40 EDT 2008


Hallo,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Christian Jaeger
<christian at pflanze.mine.nu> wrote:
>
> Suppose someone wants to publish his own code based on Gambit (L)GPL so
> that changes to his/her code will have to be republished. Assume Gambit
> itself is only BSD licensed; the combination will contain parts under
> both licenses. Assume to make his own code work, he also had to change
> Gambit in a number of places; would those changes be LGPL or BSD
> licensed? (You can't choose LGPL for the whole Gambit files anymore,
> because the original Gambit code is only licensed under BSD.) Maybe you
> could switch license within the file, i.e. add another license header in
> the midst of the file stating (L)GPL before the new function, but at
> some point this will get impractical, which is why usually such
> contributions are just made under the same license as the existing file,
> right? The only practical solution might be to offer the changes only as
> a patch file, and put the patch under the (L)GPL, but that plays poorly
> with VCS systems etc.
>

     If Gambit were BSD or MIT licensed, I could change just a
procedure and relicense the whole thing GPL.

Cheers,
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/



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