[Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?
Pontus Pihlgren
pontus at Update.UU.SE
Mon Jun 8 08:09:59 EDT 2015
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 12:57:21PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> GPLv2 states:
>
> 2b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
> part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
> parties under the terms of this License.
>
> That seems to me that if I "A" distribute or publish anything which
> includes any GPL code, to anyone "B", then I have to make the entire
> product available to any third party "C".
>
I Am No A Lawyer as they say. But I interpret this legalese as an
obligation to license your modifications or additions under GPL to
anyone you choose to distribute it to. Not necessarily that you _have_
to distribute it to anyone. That would be somewhat draconian.
/P
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