Re: FWD: Bug#121916: analog should be in non-free

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Stephen Turner <analog-author@lists.isite.net> writes:

> On 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > 
> > > Let me try and restate my reasoning. When making a derived work from GPL
> > > source, you are not allowed to add extra, more restrictive conditions on
> > > top of the GPL conditions. But the (new) BSD licence does impose an extra
> > > condition, namely the condition to reproduce the BSD licence. It's not an
> > > onerous condition, or a condition that damages freeness -- but it is an
> > > extra condition. So how can one make a work derived from both BSD and GPL
> > > source?
> > 
> > Um, the GPL already requires that you keep all the "appropriate
> > copyright notices" intact.  So the BSD license is not adding some new
> > condition at all; it's repeating a portion of the GPL's condition.
> > 
> 
> I don't have any problem with the copyright notice. My problem is that the
> BSD licence requires that you reproduce not only the copyright notice, but
> also the licence itself and their disclaimer. This seems like extra
> conditions to me.

Those conditions are actually all part of the copyright notice itself.