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

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Please read my initial mail again.  At no point have I argued the 
> legality of Paul's actions.  I'm simply stating that I find his actions 
> rude.

You chose to use MIT/X11 for code that depends on other GPL code. You did 
so because you told us you hate dealing with licensing hassles. You then 
wanted us to merge it. In effect, you left the hassle for us to deal with. 
You *were* involved in discussions about this, and about the options we 
felt were open to us - but you asked not to be involved in those, after 
making it clear you wanted the code to remain MIT/X11.

We (not just David Lamparter and I either, Greg Troxel is also an active 
maintainer, guidance wise) spent a good bit of time and energy trying to 
deal with this the last month+. We have tried to accommodate your wishes 
as much as we can.

Again, it's *not* just the licence for your software at play here. We have 
to meet the licenses from *other* people's code too. We've done so while 
*still* going out of our way to ensure future contributions remain 
available to you under MIT/X11.

It's just bizarre to call that rude, sorry - unless you think we're 
supposed to put your non-binding desires above the *binding* conditions of 
*other people's licences* (in addition to your licence).

Perhaps in time you'll see why we had to do this.

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at jakma.org	@pjakma	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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