Scope of copyright on derivative works

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 9/28/07, Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:
> "Preexisting elements of 'its expressive whole'
> remain under the BSD license."
>
> Perhaps it would help those you want to convince if you could point out
> where in the BSD license that is stated or implied.

Recall that the BSD license doesn't grant the right to sublicense.

See also this:

http://opensourcelaw.biz/publications/papers/BScott_BSD_The_Dark_Horse_of_Open_Source_070112lowres.pdf

He even argues that BSDL is as reciprocal as MS-CL(RL)!!!

I'm not that demanding. :-)

regards,
alexander.

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