"I, Michael Buesch, am one of the maintainers of the GPL'd Linux
wireless LAN driver for the Broadcom chip (bcm43xx). The Copyright holders of bcm43xx (which includes me) want to talk to you, OpenBSD bcw developers, about possible GPL license and therefore copyright violations in your bcw driver. We believe that you might have directly copied code out of bcm43xx (licensed under GPL v2), without our explicit permission, into bcw (licensed under BSD license)." The entire thread can be found here.
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"You can't convert BSD licenced code to GPL."
BSD licensed code can appear in non-BSD licensed projects (such as GPL or proprietary contexts), as long as the original source is quoted and the BSD license is included. Of course you're right, this won't affect the original code which still is under BSD license.
"You can add BSD licenced code to a GPL project if you include it's original licence, Extracting that code and using it an another BSD licenced or commercial project IS permitted as long as the person follows the licence."
That's correct, but please refer to the statement I replied to:
RE: Before we chastise this guy... By fsckit (2.74) on 2007-04-06 16:56:59 CET: "What's your point? GPL using developers take BSD code and relicense it all the time. Hell, if you actually read the email thread you would see the jackass that started this mess flaunting that fact at one point. There is certainly no hellfire and brimstone."
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2007-03-14
(EDIT: Sorry, This is supposed to be Re: Before we chastise this guy...)
What is BSDL can get something else (GPL, proprietary).
What planet do you live on? You can't convert BSD licenced code to GPL.
You can add BSD licenced code to a GPL project if you include it's original licence, Extracting that code and using it an another BSD licenced or commercial project IS permitted as long as the person follows the licence.
Edited 2007-04-06 16:15