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

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting, Curious if the same would be held true for a BSD Licensed
>> work......
>
> Yes. Precisely the same holds for BSD licensed code, which is why for
> example commercial closed source projects love including that.
>
> It should be obvious that closed source is significantly more
> restrictive than GPL, yet no-one seems to be surprised when
> MIT/X11/BSD code is closed off.

I dont think its about closing any of the code off, I think its more
about how someone can simple add other added
parameters or restrictions on the code base which was originally a
more open unrestricted license

>
> -Pieter