BSD License????

[W. Wayne Liauh]

On Friday 07 September 2001 10:32, 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.
>
> Dusty

Since I am mostly obsessed with finding ways to circumvent the GPL, I missed 
the obvious.  (Again, shame on me.)

Since your are porting (i.e., translating, assuming that you do not make 
major rewrites) an OpenBSD module into Linux, you're not re-distributing any 
Linux code (within the meaning of copyright infringement, which requires a 
substantial amount of direct or derivative copying).  Thus, you shouldn't 
have to worry about the GPL license.