On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> > 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. Indeed, if you incorporate MIT code into a GPL > project you *must* add the GPL headers to the derived work. There is > no obligation to get permission from anyone to do this: you already > granted permission when you published your work under MIT/X11. If Paul > had removed your copyright, that would be a violation of your license. > But this is not the case. > > So as far as I can tell, Paul Jakma has acted properly, and you and > Matthieu Boutier have acted improperly in trying to redefine the terms > of your license and add new restrictions after it was granted. >
Interesting, Curious if the same would be held true for a BSD Licensed work...... > -Pieter > > _______________________________________________ > Babel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
