maybe-ITP: bsdiff

[Barry Kelly]

On 5/16/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Also, AFAICS, that's not about distribution, but it's about linking
> against the Cygwin DLL.  If you do that with an application which has
> a non-approved OSS license, you're infringing the Cygwin license if
> you don't GPL the code.  But if you GPL the code, you're infringing the
> BSDPL license.  So I don't see a satisfactory way out.

It's hard to see the BSDPL as an open-source license, since only one
level of branching from the "one true authorized source" is allowed:

3.c) The license under which the derivative work is distributed must
expressly prohibit the distribution of further derivative works.

Thus, anyone who creates a derivative cannot give others the right to
create further derivitives. The first entity to license the work is
the only one with primary control, all forks are stillborn.

-- Barry