[jdev] J2ME client

Michal 'vorner' Vaner michal.vaner at kdemail.net
Sun Dec 17 05:55:56 CST 2006


Hello

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:33:48PM +0100, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> Dnia 16-12-2006, sob o godzinie 21:59 +0100, Sander Devrieze napisał(a):
> > AFAIK, you can take the BSD code and relicense from BSD to GPL without 
> > problems.
> 
> No.
> You may change the license only if you're the copyright holder (author
> by default).
> 
> But you may release your changes to the BSD-like licensed code under
> GPL. This creates mixed-license application.

Or you can make a derived work and if it is BSD, then the derived work
can be any licence. However, you have to rename the app (so the original
author is not blamed by your bugs).

-- 

There are two types of optimizations. The ones which make the program 
slower and the ones which make the user red by missing features.

Michal "vorner" Vaner
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