Per Branden's request, I am forwarding this to -legal. FSF says that the 3-clause BSD-type license is GPL-compatible. -Roberto -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gnu.org #243939] Question about 3-clause BSD and GPL compatibility Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:56:15 -0400 From: Dave Turner via RT <licensing@fsf.org> Reply-To: licensing@fsf.org To: roberto@familiasanchez.net CC: branden@debian.org > [roberto@familiasanchez.net - Tue May 24 17:49:58 2005]: > > I am considering using some abandoned code that is under the 3-clause > BSD-type license [0]. I will need to merge in some other GPL code that > I have, which will result in the whole thing being GPL'd. The > question that I have is whether this particular BSD-type license is > GPL-compatible or not. > > -Roberto > > [0] > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wx4j/modules/wx4j/LICENSE.TXT?rev=1.2&view=markup It is compatible. -- -Dave "Novalis" Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Free Software Foundation -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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