> I am free to license the whole thing to anyone as GPL. This is what you’re getting wrong. You can “distribute GPL software that includes BSD components” but

> I am free to license the whole thing to anyone as GPL. This is what you’re getting wrong. You can “distribute GPL software that includes BSD components” but this is a misstatement of what actually happens. You are distributing your own software as GPL code and at the same time distributing the BSD components. The license to those components (or their source code) does not change. You absolutely can’t blanket apply the GPL to the whole thing. > This does not "change" the licensing of the original component - but I am not providing the original component. You absolutely are. If I ship a book full of Sci Fi stories I wrote, and happen to include some classic Philip K Dick stories, I have absolutely included the original. The fact that I wrapped it in my own work changes nothing.