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Lots of GPL advocates think they can re-license BSD as GPL because BSD is permissive. Of course, there is nothing in the BSD license allowing this, only the cop
by athms 6y ago
Lots of GPL advocates think they can re-license BSD as GPL because BSD is permissive. Of course, there is nothing in the BSD license allowing this, only the copyright holder can re-license.
- protomyth 6y agoThis isn't relicensing it's removed of a person's copyright. That would not go well if it was done to them.
- athms 6y agoThe code in question was re-licensed under GPL without the author's permission. And according to the BSD license, the copyright must remain intact. A person can use BSD licensed code in a larger work under GPL or they can put the modifications under GPL, but they have no authority to change the original BSD license. The belief of being able to re-license BSD code is quite prevalent in the Linux community and is often espoused here on Hacker News.