Question about a specific license

[John Cowan]

James Michael DuPont scripsit:

> please advise : it this a BSD like license? 

Yes, it is.

> can I convert it to GPL? 
> it seems that 
> "1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer."
> Would prevent it from being GPLED?

It depends on what you mean.  Can you hike off the author's license and
impose your own?  No, you can't do that, by both law and custom.
Only the author gets to decide the license of a piece of code.

Can you use the program to create a derivative work which you license under
the GPL?  Yes, absolutely, as long as you keep the above license attached
to its component and make clear that the GPL applies to the program
as a whole.  It's commonplace to do so.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan at ccil.org
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that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_
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