Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 21:43:47 EST


Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jason Dixon wrote:
Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must
remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your
license, but the original copyright and license permission remains
intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD
code and have no problem understanding this. Why is this so difficult
for the Linux brain share to absorb?
Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing?

Maybe because Reyk's code was never dual-licensed?

And yet a good portion of Theo's response, in particular his accusations of Alan Cox exhorting people to break the law, were directly related to dual licensing.

Jeff



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