[gambit-list] BSD license

Aleksej Saushev asau at inbox.ru
Sun Oct 26 04:46:36 EDT 2008


"Alex Queiroz" <asandroq at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

No, you can't. You have to own the copyright for that.


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