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Is it possible to move from BSD-2-Clause-Views to BSD-2-Clause without contacting previous contributors
A project I'm maintaining is currently licensed under BSD-2-Clause-Views. I want to change it to the more widely used BSD-2-Clause.
https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-Views.html
https://spdx.org/...
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Do significant changes to code allow a license change from 3-BSD to something else? [duplicate]
Suppose person X writes some library foolib, licensing it under the 3-BSD license.
Person Y now takes the foolib sources and develops it further, making significant changes: More functionality, ...
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Does the BSD licence implicitly apply to derived work?
Moved from the discussion of this answer, which makes the following claim about BSD licences:
The 3BSD licence requires (in clause 1) that your copyright notices be preserved, and that some licence ...
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Distributing BSD-3 code under the Apache license v2 only
Alice and Bob write a piece of source code (call it Source1) and publish it under the BSD 3-clause license. Later, Bob and Charlie are working on a software project, licensed under AL2 (Apache License ...
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Why does the clause 3 of 4-clause BSD makes it incompatible with GPL?
As explained on the GNU GPL site, the 4-clause BSD is incompatible with GPL because of the clause 3 which states:
All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
must ...
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Can I take MIT licensed code and distribute it under BSD?
There is django-auth-kerberos (MIT) which I want to cherry-pick as initial implementation and include+modify as a plugin to python-social-auth/social-core (BSD). Does the MIT license permit this? Are ...
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Is it possible to move from MIT to BSD?
I commited some work on GitHub under the MIT license.
Is it possible to move from MIT license to BSD-3 or 4 clauses for some of the projects? And as an extent, to any other license?
If possible, is ...
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Using FreeBSD licensed code in a GPL3+ project
I have a code project which I have released under the GPL3+, which you can see here. I would like to implement a section of code that would use the lmfit nonlinear fitting library, provided here. The ...
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How do I license code when rewriting code in another language? [duplicate]
I took the C code from the png2theora example tool of Xiph.Org Theora which has a copyright header:
/********************************************************************
* ...
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Can I add "third clause" to BSD-like license?
I forked a project which is licensed under “BSD-like” license. This goes as
the following:
Copyright © 20xx Author
CopyRight © 20xx Another author
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in ...
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Can I relicense software under the modified BSD licence?
I want to modify and merge some software that is available under the two clause BSD license into a project that is available under the GNU GPL version 2.
I want to distribute the result under the GNU ...
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Can I take BSD licensed code and distribute it under GPL?
Or in more general terms: Can I take code which is licensed under a permissive open source license (like the BSD license) and distribute it under a copyleft free software license (like the GPL)?
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If I include some GPL code in my project, can I release it as BSD?
I have scientific software that I would like to release under the BSD 3-clause licence, but it includes some old code that was released under GPL.
Can I still package it all and release as BSD?
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