BSD License????

[W. Wayne Liauh]

My understanding about BSL is, as long as you acknowledge that it is under 
BSL you can do anything you want.

And based on what Dusty wrote, he is only interested in porting PF into 
Linux.  As long as he does not "publicly" distribute it, there cannot be any 
GPL violation because he has not come to that bridge.


On Saturday 08 September 2001 15:17, you wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2001, Dusty wrote:
> >So would it be legal for someone to port the OpenBSD teams PF (packet
> >filter), which uses the BSD license, to be used in Linux.  I am just
> >asking about legally, nothing about the technical challenges in making a
> >BSD kernel module work as a Linux kernel module.  I assume this would
> >mean foking the PF code into two seperate open source projects.
>
> Unfortunately, you can not separate technical and legal issues.  If this
> packet filter can be made into a loadable module, then there is no
> problems.  Linus says the loadable module API is a public API, so a
> loadable module is no different from an application that happens to run in
> kernel mode.
>
> If this is not possible, then it depends on whether the BSD license that
> PF uses contain the advertisement clause.  If it does, then it is
> incompatible with the GPL and you can not distribute the ported source
> code even if you got it working.  Some software explicitly excluded the
> advertisement clause from the BSD license.
>
> --jc