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>That's how open source projects work Just to clarify, that is how GPL licensed software works. There are a lot of different open source licenses that do not r
by nikcub 16y ago
>That's how open source projects work
Just to clarify, that is how GPL licensed software works. There are a lot of different open source licenses that do not require anything.
- jrockway 16y agoThis is not specific to the GPL. You can't change the license unless the copyright owners agree. That applies for any software license or really anything copyrighted. Some things are easy because the license specifically permits it: you can GPL a BSD-licensed project, for example. In that case, the agreement from the copyright holders comes in the form of the terms of the license.
- IgorPartola 16y agoExactly. BSD/MIT/Apache != Public Domain.
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- dkersten 16y agoBut you cannot relicense a BSD-licensed project as GPL because only the original rights-holder can do that. You can apply the GPL on top of the BSD license because the GPL is more specific than the BSD license (ie GPL is a restricted subset of the BSD license, kinda). You must still make the original BSD-licensed code available under the BSD license.