On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 07:48:45PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > > BSD means they don't have to share the changes they made, or even the > original code. The only thing they cannot legally do, is change the > copyright on the code, which as some have pointed out, is a tough thing to > prove. Modifying code and keeping it secret is fair game.
I tend to summarize along the lines of "BSD licensed means you can do whatever you damned well please with the code except claim that you wrote it all yourself" as in, to legally change the copyright of a piece of work in most jurisdictions (possibly all) requires that you have replaced the original content in its entirety. Making changes to BSD licensed code and distributing binaries while keeping the changes to yourself is in fact allowed. Not an overly nice thing to do and it might make maintaining the thing harder, but definitely legal. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
