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Yea seems strange. They have copywritten my copywritten files?

• ollien 4y ago
  IANAL, but check out this law.stackexchange thread. It pertains to the BSD license, but it's very similar https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/4149/can-one-take-bsd-licensed-code-and-distribute-it-under-gpl https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/4149/can-one-take-bs...
  • NickBusey 4y ago
    And the 2nd answer seems to say that no, you can't just recopyright something. https://law.stackexchange.com/a/4150 https://law.stackexchange.com/a/4150
    • ollien 4y ago
      Some answers seem to disagree. I, as a non-lawyer, think as long as the git commits make it clear who authored what, it's a non-issue.
    • david_allison 4y ago
      See the Software Freedom Law Center's guide: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html#x1-40002.2 https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-colla... There are multiple examples of how to recopyright MIT-style source under the GPL.
• bluesign 4y ago
  copyright notice just means they have at least partial copyright. It doesn't mean they have copyright to all code.