Brotherly love

Posted Sep 4, 2007 21:39 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

> Why does our brother Linux take a file that is 90% BSD licensed, and refuse to let us see the 10% he adds?

I think the answer to this is rather simple: because brother Linux doesn't want to see his 10% of the code ending up in proprietary software.

PS. Of course the code can be "seen", it's just not distributable under a BSD licence, which is what the original comment is about.