Re: [gNewSense-users] BSD code

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 06:24 -0700, Peter and Jesse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-15-04 at 20:53 +0800, Christophe Jarry wrote:
> > Luis Alberto Guzmán García 写道: 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I found some BSD code, and the license is not GPL, indeed it has no
> > > license.
> > > drivers/net/bsd_comp.c
> > > But recalls the use of no GPL and the terms to redistribute, 
> > > it can be seen in
> > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--net--bsd-comp-c
> > > 
> > > is a little long so i didn't copy it here.
> > > How can we see this? Free?
> > > Thanks
> > >   
> > This seems to be the Modified BSD license as described at
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. If it is, it's free.
> > 
> >  I'm not sure so could someone recheck?
> 
> No, this is the original BSD license. See the clause about advertising,
> which makes it incompatible with the GPL, but still free. So we should
> be fine.
>  Peter

Not being to great with licencing i was wondering - 
how can something be linked with linux (which i assume this driver is)
and be GPL incompatible?
kk

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Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au

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