Matt Said: If you take and modify a piece of BSD code you are NOT required under the BSD licence to put your additions under the same terms
Well the license says
Redistribution and use... with modification are permitted provided
that.... xyz
Does the 'with modificaton' extend to just the original code, whatever is left after the modification, or all of it?
"The wording does not support identification of a specific
subset of the source code (ie the portion which is unmodified) for the license to apply to." (4.2) (From Here) which leads to the implication that the requirement applies to all the code, new and old.
So other then just wishing it was so, I wonder if in th e long history of BSDL if there has ever been a discussion or even precedence on this?
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Matt Said: If you take and modify a piece of BSD code you are NOT required under the BSD licence to put your additions under the same terms Well the license says Redistribution and use ... with modification are permitted provided
that .... xyz
Does the 'with modificaton' extend to just the original code, whatever is left after the modification, or all of it?
"The wording does not support identification of a specific
subset of the source code (ie the portion which is unmodified) for the license to apply to." (4.2) (From Here) which leads to the implication that the requirement applies to all the code, new and old.
So other then just wishing it was so, I wonder if in th e long history of BSDL if there has ever been a discussion or even precedence on this?