Re: Real men don't attack straw men

[Marco Peereboom]

This is illegal.  Repeating it over and over again will not make it so.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:49:41PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     You *can't relicense* code under your choice without the author consent 
>     period!
> 
> That BSD license gives permission for almost any kind of use,
> including distributing the code under other licenses.  The only
> requirement is not to remove the BSD license statement itself.
> 
> Another message raised the question of what relicensing means and
> whether that involves changes to the code.  When I say "relicensing" I
> mean distributing the code with another license applied.  That doesn't
> mean deleting the old license.
> 
> The concept of relicensing does not imply changing or adding code, and
> the legality of relicensing doesn't depend on changing or adding code.
> However, I would urge people to relicense only if they make very big
> changes.  If they make lesser changes, it is better to contribute them
> to the original project, and if they make no changes, relicensing is
> just silly (in most cases).