"Christian Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I sound rude, but did you ever read the BSD license? > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > It says in the first sentence: > "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are > met..." > > I'd say you can use BSD licensed code for your own projects as long as > you provide the copyright message ...
Actually, the O.P. raises a legitimate concern. Yes, the conditions for use of BSD-licensed code are very liberal; but this is beside his point. Suppose Alice *claims* that John used her *proprietary* code in his product, and John counters that he used someone else's BSD-licensed code? How is that sort of claim to be dealt with? The matter is more than hypothetical: I seem to recall some legal wrangling between IBM and SCO over SCO's allegation that IBM wrongly released SCO-proprietary code under the GPL. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
