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Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Hi,
:
: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : andrzej zaborowski wrote:
: > : > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > : > > According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact
: > : > > contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not
later...
: > : >
: > : > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of
: > : > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed.
: > :
: > : Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice).
: >
: > No. It isn't. *ADDING* the GPL license to a 2-clause BSD licensed file
: > is legal, but removing the BSD stuff is not allowed. It must be
: > retained, per the BSD license.
:
: Since we are in pea-counter mode: if you add something _more_ than just a
: license, you _can_ relicense with the GPL. That means that everybody
: using _your_ modified version as a base _must_ license the result using
: GPL, or not license it at all.
Almost right. They must license with the GPL, but the original BSD
license must also remain intact within the file. Since the GPL is a
supoerset of the 2-cluase BSD license, you are actually licensing
under both...
Warner
