Newbie Port Creator Questions

[Rainer Müller]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> AFAIK, the BSD license allows you to create a derived work that would
> be distributed under the GPL. Owning the original source is necessary
> only if you want to change the license in an incompatible manner (e.g.
> you created a work which you distributed under the GPLv2 and you want
> to distribute a future version under the GPLv3+).

GPLv2 is not necessarily incompatible with GPLv3. GPL lets the original
author choose how new versions apply to the software. See paragraph 9 of
the GPLv2 [1].

--snip--
| Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
| specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
| later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
| either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
| Software Foundation.
--snap--
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

So if a software supplies the phrase "either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version." then I think it
can be used and redistributed under the Terms of GPLv3.

IANAL, that's just how I understand it.

Rainer