On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2015, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> Matthieu prepared this tree on the understanding that it would be merged >> as is. In particular, we were expecting that the original commit of the >> Babel code (under the name of a Paul Jakma) would be overridden by a commit >> under Matthieu's name. This has not happened -- the Babel code in Quagga >> still appears with an original commit by Paul Jakma, and under a Quagga >> copyright statement. Although the Quagga people have written none of this >> code. > > > I've done my best to try make you happy. I really have. > > The problem is, our lawyers tell us the code you and Matthieu adapted to > rely on Quagga functionality isn't just subject to your licensing terms, but > "likely" (one lawyer) and "obliged" also the licensing terms of a lot of > other people. > > It isn't a question of us putting GPL notices on the quagga-babeld port just > for the fun of it (we have other purely-permissive files elsewhere in > Quagga, note), or just to annoy you. It is because legal advice tells us we > are *required* to honour our GPL licence obligations to the *other* > copyright holders of your code. > > The commit messages do not claim authorship over the code. That's not how > commit messages work. However, we are able to delete and re-import with > commit messages as you wish, if that would build good-will and enable a > solution - within the legal constraints. > > We can remove the GPL notices from some of the files, that can be clearly > identified as independent of Quagga (again, based on legal advice). > > We can also stop distributing quagga-babeld, if it bothers you so much. No > problem there either.
My vote is for this option. It would be better for the babel protocol to continue to evolve in its other two incarnations, and interoperate with other protocols through the neutral FIB database maintained in the kernel, without this competing, increasingly obsolete, and unmaintainable, highly disputed, and sorely contentious implementation. -- Dave Täht Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware** https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67 _______________________________________________ Quagga-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
