Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Feb 10,  4:41am, Martin wrote:
} 
} Well it all honesty 3BSD was just an example that came to my head. I am
} actually looking at 2.11BSD mostly.
} I understand the caldera licence is a bsd-style licence which correct me if
} I'm wrong includes 2.11BSD?
} So what you are saying is i could create a fork/ continuation of the
} 2.11BSD under for example 2.11BSD-Prismatic?
} What is the deal with licencing for example with 4.3BSD-Quasijarus have
} they just kept the original licence or have they been able to place their
} fork of 4.3BSD-Tahoe under current BSD equivalent licence?
} Sounds like a stupid question but I would prefer to if possible Licence it
} the 3-clause BSD, as that is the license I will be using for any new code.

     I meant to respond to your first note.  The bottom line is
that if you fork something, the original licence goes with the
code.  You absolutely can NOT change a licence under any circumstances.
Only the original copyright holder can change the licence.  If the
original copyright holder has given permission to use a different
licence then you may do so, but only then.

}-- End of excerpt from Martin