Interesting Licensing for CERT BFF

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Thu May 27 21:37:25 UTC 2010


David Dillard wrote:
> 
> To my non-legally trained mind, this would appear to mean that this
> source code cannot be used in GPL projects, but GPL source can probably
> be used in this project.

I would say it was simply GPL incompatible.  (There has always been the 
option, where you own the copyright of giving extra permissions to GPL 
code, to allow it to coexist, but you cannot impose extra restrictions.)

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