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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!nntp.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!165.87.194.248!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net!not-for-mail From: mouth@ibm.net (Mouth of the South) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 15:49:07 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <D3P9y0gTzXhE091yn@ibm.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clgth$et2@qnx.com> <5cokjc$amq@web.nmti.com> <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net> <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip129-37-195-242.nc.us.ibm.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155716 comp.os.linux.networking:66991 comp.os.linux.setup:95093 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2192 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51624 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265077 In article <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca>, cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote: >In article <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net>, >>If we try to apply the GPL, which mandates >>that source code must be freely available, to BSD licensed derivative >>works, which allows it to be secretly hoarded, then GPL would forcibly >>overrule the BSD license and nullify its terms. > >Um...exactly which of the terms would it nullify? (Please quote >the exact text.) Reason it out. Mere knowledge that GPL mandates unrestricted access to source code of derivative works while BSD doesn't means that the two contradict each other on this point. For a given original work of source code, the source code a work derived from that original is either freely available as in the case of GPL, or can be withheld as in the case of BSD. For a given work, obviously we cannot have it both ways. Either the source code MUST be made available, or it can be withheld. On this point BSD conflicts with GPL and one of them has to rule. In every case, it will always be whichever one was first applied to the code.