Meld's Bazaar support

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 10:42 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:22:47PM +1000 I heard the voice of
> Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > > What is legal is redistributing BSD-2c code as GPL, and then
> > > bundling *that* with GPL code.
> > 
> > No, thats illegal - its changing the licence on the BSD code.
> 
> Actually, that's fine; you're not changing the license on the BSD
> code, you're adding another on top of it.  BSD license doesn't say
> "You can't add more restrictions on top of this", it just says "you
> have to keep this credit and disclaimer".  Taking in BSD-licensed
> code, and putting out BSD+GPL'd (simultaneous, not alternate) code
> doesn't violate the BSDL.

If you dont own the copyright, you *cannot* change the licence.

Nothing to do with licence compatability.

The reason you can include a BSD file in a GPL program is aggregation
and compatability of derived works.

-Rob

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