q.dinar
January 26th, 2010, 10:26 AM
it is said in BSD license that user can redistribute it but should keep this license.
in articles in web it is said that BSD-licensed things can became proprietary.
so how it is possible that it became proprietary if company that wants to make it proprietary should use same license for it saying "you can redistribute this and you should keep this license" ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses :
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
what i understand from saying "proprietary" - when user is not allowed to sell it to other people not having permission from owner company, not allowed to disassemble program, modify and use without permission of owner company.
but from what i read in BSD license it looks like these must be allowed for all users, so how it can became proprietary.
probably i understand something wrong.
in articles in web it is said that BSD-licensed things can became proprietary.
so how it is possible that it became proprietary if company that wants to make it proprietary should use same license for it saying "you can redistribute this and you should keep this license" ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses :
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
what i understand from saying "proprietary" - when user is not allowed to sell it to other people not having permission from owner company, not allowed to disassemble program, modify and use without permission of owner company.
but from what i read in BSD license it looks like these must be allowed for all users, so how it can became proprietary.
probably i understand something wrong.