BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> My copyright interest, as you suggest, does not extend to your BSD-licensed
> work. But I read your BSD license as giving me permission to distribute your
> work under any license I choose, including AFL 3.0, as long as I copy the
> text of your BSD license in the source code. 

I agree. You can distribute BSD-licensed works under any license
you want, provided you meet the conditions in the BSD license
(and don't hold the authors liable for any damages).

Of course, I can take Larry's distribution of the work and
re-use it any way *I* want by simply complying with the BSD
license conditions. I can completely ignore the AFL 3.0 for
any parts I can identify as originally BSD-licensed.

In other words, this construct is *dual* licensing, not *sub* licensing.

Arnoud

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