BSD and OSD

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Wed May 24 18:38:40 UTC 2000


W . Yip writes:

> But the BSD enables a licensee to ADD restrictions to redistribution,
> INCLUDING a requirement of payment, does it not?
> 
> How then is the BSD an Open Source license?

Because that would be the licensee's fault, not the copyright holder's
fault.  The software thus encumbered would not be open source anymore,
but other copies would continue to be.

By your argument, public domain software couldn't be open source,
because someone could incorporate it into a completely proprietary
package.

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