[Vorbis] Re: Bitrate Peeling (no. really)

[Daniel Schregenberger]

On Fre, 2004-10-01 at 23:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, [iso-8859-1] Bjrn Lindstrm wrote:
> 
> > > The BSD license _is_ GPL-compatible.  No problem.
> >
> > Also, one of the points of the BSD license is that there's nothing
> > stopping you from re-releasing the library under the GPL.
> 
> As long as the code in question still has its original copyright and the
> standard disclaimer of liability and the list of conditions. A standard
> BSD-like license says "Redistributions ... must retain the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer."

Only the "revised BSD licence" is GPL compatible. The orginial one is
not because of the advertising clause.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

(from the GNU page above:) "When you want to refer specifically to one
of the BSD licenses, please always state which one: the ``original BSD
license'' or the ``revised BSD license''."

-- Daniel