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

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Gabriel Kerneis
<kerneis at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Pieter Hintjens 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.
>
> IANAL, but I fail to see how someone who is *not* the copyright holder might
> have any right to add restrictions whatsoever on a piece of code.  Only the
> copyright holder can decide the licence of their code.
>
> And if the additional GPL headers do not apply to Juliusz's and Matthieu's code,
> then what do they apply to and what is the point in adding them?
>

I would now also question the license of any code added to babel under
the quagga tree with this GPL
license being added, even being capable of being brought back into the
mainline babel MIT Licensed code

> --
> Gabriel
>
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