Re: [gNewSense-users] BSD code

[Kevin Dean]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

It's can't be done legally.

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