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

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Outback Dingo wrote:

> 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

Please see:

   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=quagga.git;a=blob;f=babeld/LICENCE

as should be clear from this file, we have NOT tried to close off the code 
to the standalone, MIT/X11 licensed version of babeld which is independent 
of Quagga: we will require that contributions to Quagga babeld/ be MIT/X11 
licensed.

We have followed these SFLC guidelines, which I believe are best practice:

   https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html

regards,
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