Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : andrzej zaborowski wrote: > : > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > > According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact > : > > contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not > later... > : > > : > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of > : > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed. > : > : Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice). > > No. It isn't. *ADDING* the GPL license to a 2-clause BSD licensed file > is legal, but removing the BSD stuff is not allowed. It must be > retained, per the BSD license. Since we are in pea-counter mode: if you add something _more_ than just a license, you _can_ relicense with the GPL. That means that everybody using _your_ modified version as a base _must_ license the result using GPL, or not license it at all. But I agree with Thiemo, it is not nice. Ciao, Dscho
