[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#775588: Bug#775588: darcs: Missing copyright information

[Christian Kastner]

On 2015-01-18 15:09, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Well, that’s how the files are distributed to Debian. But that doesn’t
> mean that Debian cannot re-license them all under the GPL... At least I
> thought that BSD code can generally be relicensed under the GPL.

Oh, now I understand what you mean.

What you're thinking of it compatibility, and yes, the BSD licenses are
considered compatible to the GPL, so GPL code can link to BSD code (and
be distributed together, etc.).

But only the current copyright holders have the power to relicense the
work, so the sha2.{c,h} files remain BSD no matter where they are included.

Regards,
Christian