Russ Allbery wrote: > Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> David Howells wrote: > >>> I do wonder if it'd be possible to get IBM to dual licence OpenAFS >>> (IPL/GPL). > >> At this point it is not just IBM. There have been a large number of >> contributions to OpenAFS over the last six years and not all of those >> contributions have even been under the IPL. In order to dual license we >> would need to get approval from every contributor as well as have those >> who were unwilling to license their contribution under the IPL to do so. >> Organizations that preferred the MIT or BSD licenses have reasonable >> justification for doing so. > > BSD- or MIT-licensed code should co-exist with the GPL just as easily as > with the IPL, provided it's not the four-clause BSD license. (Not that > this changes the larger point. Relicensing would be very difficult even > if IBM were willing to make the first step.)
While this is true, I refer you to the posting from Harald Barth indicating that BSD licensed code (Arla) is not acceptable to the Linux kernel folks. Jeffrey Altman
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