<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Smith, McCoy</b> <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com">mccoy.smith@intel.com</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;">
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<p style=""><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Well, here's
one lawyer that will quote another (who does post on this list with some
regularity):<br>
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"</span></font><font face="AGaramond-Regular"><span style="font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">The BSD license even allows software to be taken from that public
commons and used in proprietary applications. There is no obligation for the
licensee to return anything to the commons. But despite the absence of such an
obligation, the BSD "gift of freedom" is being repaid over and over
by companies</span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="AGaramond-Regular" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">and
individuals who see more value to them in giving software away under an
academic license than in keeping it private.</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">"</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>First, this does not require sublicensing since the BSD license addresses every downstream recipient of the source code so licensed. It does *not* require that other content *added* to such a work carry the same license. Hence these components can carry with them arbitrary copyright restrictions.
<br><br>The only comment I have been able to find by Mr Rosen on this particular issue of sublicensing is that it is not clear. Please see the thread on OSI Approval Process and read both Mr Rosen's email and the message it was in reply to.
<br><br>Also see <a href="http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:msp:13233:lipaophecobggbjdfkoa">http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:msp:13233:lipaophecobggbjdfkoa</a> <br> </div></div>My main point being that the BSDL works in this way.
<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br>