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[Martin Ebourne]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 22:22 +0000, Jamie Neil wrote:
> My understanding of the BSD licence is that it allows anyone to do 
> pretty much anything they like with the code provided they leave the 
> copyright intact (the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP stack was derived almost 
> entirely from the 4.3BSD Unix code), so if someone wanted to release a 
> fork of the code under the GPL licence they would be entitled to do so.

Not the standard 4 clause BSD licence as used for Box - it contains the
attribution clause ("contains software written by...") which is not
compatible with the GPL. (See the gnu site for a detailed explanation.)

I believe what you say would be true for the modified 3 clause BSD
licence (the same, but missing the attribution clause), but that's not
relevant here.

For the record I give Ben permission to re-licence the (admittedly few)
modifications I have already submitted for Box, and any I submit in
future, to the GPL at any time he likes. But somehow I'm sure that won't
be necessary. ;-)

Cheers,

Martin.