[Babel-users] Babeld merged with GPL headers against copyright holders' wishes

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
>> Paul Jakma has added GPL headers to the babeld code that he has merged
>> into Quagga.  This was done against the wishes of Matthieu Boutier and
>> myself, the main two authors of this code, and without the knowledge of
>> the other authors.
>
> If you publish your code under MIT/X11 you explicitly grant others the
> right to do this. Indeed, if you incorporate MIT code into a GPL
> project you *must* add the GPL headers to the derived work. There is
> no obligation to get permission from anyone to do this: you already
> granted permission when you published your work under MIT/X11. If Paul
> had removed your copyright, that would be a violation of your license.
> But this is not the case.
>
> So as far as I can tell, Paul Jakma has acted properly, and you and
> Matthieu Boutier have acted improperly in trying to redefine the terms
> of your license and add new restrictions after it was granted.
>

Interesting, Curious if the same would be held true for a BSD Licensed
work......


> -Pieter
>
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