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Re: Transitive closure of licenses



On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:58:55PM -0600, Joe Moore wrote:
> Are all derived works from DFSG-free packages DFSG-free?
> 
> No.  The BSD network stack is DFSG-free.  But Microsoft's implementation of
> it is not.

But that's due to them licensing their changes under another, non-free
license, not due to the actual feature changes in the code.

If I remove any given features from a BSD-licensed program, it remains free.

-- 
Glenn Maynard


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