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. Warner