On Wed, 20 May 2015, Paul Jakma wrote:
Let's be clear about something:
The nub of the issue here is that at least some lawyers say (AIUI) that when
you write code that heavily depends on someone else's code, then you no
longer exclusively own that code. The other people also are copyright holders
in the code you wrote.
Applied to quagga-babeld, the issue is that at least some lawyers have given
advice that implies that at least portions of it likely do not belong
exclusively to Juliusz and Matthieu - other Quagga copyright holders *also*
"own" it.
If that is the case, then they do NOT have the freedom to choose their
licence completely independently.
To be 100% clear, that should have the qualifier of "if they want us to be
able to distribute it".
I am not a lawyer, I don't know what's right, I can only go by what every
lawyer I've had advice from on Quagga - 3 different sets of lawyers - have
advised to this effect (and the first time, from the corporate counsel, it
really wasn't what I wanted to hear).
regards,
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