Re: [dev] [license] gpl issues

2023-06-18 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 04:58:07PM +1200, Miles Rout wrote: > > > On 6 May 2023 8:56:23 pm NZST, "Страхиња Радић" wrote: > > But that is pointless to > >bring up here, because the reality is that the programmers who made suckless > >software mostly picked Expat License (and are calling it "the

Re: [dev] [license] gpl issues

2023-06-18 Thread Markus Wichmann
Am Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 11:44:18AM +0200 schrieb Hiltjo Posthuma: > Hi, > > I think you can relicense only your own changes to GPL, so you'd have to keep > both the MIT and GPL license with the original copyright information. > > And probably explain very clearly to which new parts the GPL license

Re: [dev] [license] gpl issues

2023-06-18 Thread NRK
Hi Hiltjo, > you'd have to keep both the MIT license with the original copyright > information. I believe this part is true because almost all MIT style licenses (with some exception such as `MIT-0`) have the following restriction: The above copyright notice and this permission notice sh

Re: [dev] [license] gpl issues

2023-06-18 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/06/18 04:58PM, Miles Rout wrote: > As far as I understand, if you create a work (A) that is a fork of another > work (B), where B is MIT-licensed, nothing stops you from licensing A as GPL. > I > wouldn't call it "relicensing": you're licensing your own work, A, which > happens to be deri