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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.
Warner
