[sldev] Fwd: [Opensim-dev] Violating the GPL by looking (Re: Voice Module)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-03-19, at 12:21, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Yes you can. The GPL has an explicit clause disallowing further
> restrictions. The BSD license, however, does not. Hence, BSD can be
> "consumed" by GPL code. I think the BSD license still applies to such
> code, though.

Indeed it does. There was a bit of a row recently when it was  
discovered that someone had *removed* the BSDL from a driver in  
Linux. I'm sure that it was done innocently by some naive programmer,  
because it was quite unnecessary: the BSDL is compatible with the  
GPL, but that doesn't mean the GPL replaces the BSDL... rather the  
code becomes dual-licensed.