Re: FWD: Bug#121916: analog should be in non-free
Stephen Turner <analog-author@lists.isite.net> writes:
> On 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Stephen Turner <analog-author@lists.isite.net> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
>
> Oh? We obviously have different meanings of "copyright notice". To me, a
> copyright notice is a statement of ownership, and a licence is the terms
> under which the copyright holder allows another party to copy and distribute
> the intellectual property. Both the BSD licence and the preamble to the GPL
> make this distinction.
The term "copyright notice" and "license" are not inherently
disjunctive of each other. Many copyright notices include licenses
within their texts. Such is the case with the BSD license, such is
also the case with the suggested method of applying the GPL to new
works.
Thomas
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