BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 10/15/07, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
> Arnoud Engelfriet scripsit:
>
> > 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).
>
> I still don't see what gives you the authority to do that.  You
> can license *derivative* works as you like, and you can license
> (as in general) a *collective* work as you like, but the original
> work?  How do you get the power to license that?

Eben says that the power comes from "historical community practice".
He has a PhD in History so he surely knows what he is talking about
when it comes to History. He also says that no way should we try to
disrupt that power because that would hurt proprietary division of the
global information technology industry.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.pdf

regards,
alexander.

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