Re: ??:Re: Change from BSDL to GPL?

[James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On May 5, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:39:05PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > In article <42f3a3efb7.3efb742f3a%shtel.net.cn@localhost>,  <hlwhyw%shtel.net.cn@localhost 
> > > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I mean that I reserve the original BSD licence.
> > > Except that I append a GPL licence at the end of
> > > BSD licence in source code.
> >
> > You cannot append both licenses and have them both in force at the
> > same time since they have conflicting terms. You can dual-license
> > your code, i.e. allow it to be distributed either by the BSD or
> > the GPL license.
> >
> > christos
>
> Dual licensing won't help in this case, since the BSD code needs to  
> remain
> BSD licensed.

I believe Christos is referring to any mods. You can dual license your  
own code all you want.

What you cannot do is change the BSD licensed code to a new license.

James