Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Sep 2007 13:40 UTC, submitted by dylansmrjones
SFLC has released a code analysis of the infamous ath5k driver in Linux. SFLC has also - in the aftermath of the OpenBSD-Team vs. Linux-Team 'License Flame War' - released a paper on what 'copyrightable' means, as well as one on proper usage of non-GPL'ed code in GPL'ed projects. All as part of guidance for developers wishing to use permissive licensed code in GPL'ed projects.
Groklaw naturally also has a take on this.
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Member since:2005-11-23
Of course BSD projects can use GPL'ed code
IF you license under BSD, you want your product to be able to be used by ALL. Even closed source products. Simply everybody, for any use (Does it get much more free than this?).
By accepting GPL code into your project, you put restrictions on the entire product.
Member since:2005-07-02
IF you license under BSD, you want your product to be able to be used by ALL. Even closed source products.
So what's the problem with using it in a GPLed product, then? It may be more restrictive than the BSDL, but it's certainly a lot more open than closed source!
Thanks for exposing the double standards some of the BSD advocates have demonstrated here...
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2005-07-11
GPL projects can use BSD code. BSD projects can not use GPL code.
Of course BSD projects can use GPL'ed code. They can even modify that GPL'ed code and they can distribute the GPL'ed code with the modifications they've made. The GPL allows all this. It's just that the modified code also needs to be GPL'ed and BSD projects don't generally want to ship any code they've written under the GPL.
But there's a big difference between a case where you don't want to use some code and another case where you're not allowed to use it. BSD projects are allowed use GPL'ed code but they just don't want to. So it's not really the GPL restricting BSD projects, it's rather the BSD projects restricting themselves (and then blaming the GPL).