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Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?



Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <skurapat@ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an
>> additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names
>> to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks.
> 
> Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT licenses have a clause saying 'You may
> not add additional restrictions.'

Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-)

So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become
licensed under both licenses?  That is, did the originally-MIT
portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license?

Thanks for your consideration.



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