Re: SCO's Evidence: This Smoking Gun Fizzles Out

Re: SCO's Evidence: This Smoking Gun Fizzles Out

Posted Aug 22, 2003 7:54 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: SCO's Evidence: This Smoking Gun Fizzles Out by Arker
Parent article: SCO's Evidence: This Smoking Gun Fizzles Out

I agree that the licenses (BSD+advert & GPL) aren't compatible. But it is
the GPL which says that no additional restrictions may be added. The BSD
license does not forbid that. So the copyright holders which could
legitimatly prevent distribution of software which is composed of both
types of software are the copyright holders of the GPL'ed code. In this
case, that would be the kernel developers and not SCO.

(Once again, IANAL so don't consider this legal advice.)

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