IANAL, etc.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Flaschen</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu">matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Travers wrote:<br>> Note that I am *not* allowed to change the license of BSDL code I distribute<br>> as part of my GPL'd application. How is the MS-PL different?<br><br>You can't remove the BSD license text. But you can add a license
<br>(sublicense). The latter is not true of MS-PL.</blockquote><div><br>What exactly do you think a license is? Under what right do you have to add one to someone else's code?<br></div></div><br>I always thought a license was essentially a grant of permission to do something that might otherwise be restricted. To add a license in this case would mean? Are you adding permissions not granted by the BSDL? Is that allowed?
<br><br>I don't think that one is allowed to add or remove permissions from someone else's code unless appropraite copyright have been assigned.<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br>