Les Mikesell wrote:

The statement is not wrong - the reason a few that are listed as compatible is that the permit themselves to be replaced by the GPL.

You can not legally replace the copyright on a work that was created by someone else, unless the license of that work specifically allows you to do so. I believe that there is at least one such license listed, but in general, you are incorrect.

This was at the heart of a problem in the Linux kernel, where a driver taken from OpenBSD had its copyright notice mistakenly removed:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070829001634

The entire conversation may prove educational. I think that someone from the FSF wrote an article about mixing licensed works after the atheros driver mistake to clarify the legalities for non-lawyers.

When combined in a work with GPL components any other attributes of the original licenses no longer apply.

As above, incorrect.

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