Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: Unzip module

[Brian H. <bh...@sp...>]

On 24 Jul 2004, skaller wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 06:29, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
> > I use this code in a program I'm writing here at work. It's licensed
> > under a BSD style license, but Dustin might be willing to release
> > it under the LGPL. He's been very flexible with licensing in the past,
> > but you'd have to ask.
> 
> Actually I don't believe so. If it has a BSD licence,
> you can just add LGPL on as an extra constraint.
> Basically if the code is BSD you can do what you want
> with it as long as you don't remove the copyright notice.
> 

Actually, I have a problem with doing this.  It's perfectly legal, but 
that doesn't make it *right*.  I've seen BSD proponents (with some 
justification) complain at this sort of "license theft".  There are two 
ways I could see doing this:
	- Include it, but keep that particular file BSD copyright
	- Rewrite it so we can apply whatever license we want to it


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