Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Hartmann, O.
> <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> On 08/31/11 20:13, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> The list would be way too long. I know other Linux-based groups that
>>> have integrated drivers from FreeBSD as well for proprietary work.
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Garrett
>> 
>> And claimed then it's GPLv3?
> 
> Not that anything is (legally) wrong with that. All code re-use is
> good - if so many OSes hadn't reused BSD sockets, we probably wouldn't
> be having this discussion now.

Assuming the license had been preserved in the derived work. If not, then that is a problem..

I'm also not sure that relicensing source as GPL if it was originally BSD is such a wise thing to do either, but IANAL.

Thanks,
-Garrett