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Re: GPL compatibility of DFCL



On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 03:57:54AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> When people see a GPL'd work, they expect to be able to do anything the
> GPL allows to any subsection of it, including pull it out, print it and
> sell it with no extra license information but the GPL.

If the GPLed work contains another work, that can be infringment of
copyright right there, DFCL or no DFCL.

BSD:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

MIT/X11:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

I certainly hope that people in general aren't as careless as you're
urging them to be.

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