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Nobody has the right to change the license of a work except the copyright holder. If I have a project licensed under the X11 license, and I copy some BSD-licen
by jmillikin 14y ago
Nobody has the right to change the license of a work except the copyright holder.
If I have a project licensed under the X11 license, and I copy some BSD-licensed code into it, then that code is still the property of the original owner, and it needs to remain under the BSD license. If I simply copied it and stripped out the copyright notices, then I would be committing copyright infringement.
- Xylakant 14y agoTrue. The code you copied is still under MIT/X11/WTFPL etc. However, with GPL, the combined work, so the code that you copied and the code that you added yourself must be GPL. This is not true for MIT/BSD/X11/WTFPL. Under those licences, the combined work can be licensed under any license you choose, even a closed source one - so your original assertion is wrong.