I agree that I could have been more precise. Again, I thought this was widely understood. I apologize for my lack of clarity. I was never suggesting some ext

I agree that I could have been more precise. Again, I thought this was widely understood. I apologize for my lack of clarity. I was never suggesting some extra-legal method; it simply didn't occur to me because I would never consider this in a software licensing discussion. When I say relicense a BSD project under the GPL, I mean take the existing codebase and go through whatever legal steps are necessary (without additional permission from the copyright owners) such that the resulting distribution can accept future contributions under the GPL. So do you now understand what I mean, and see that it's possible with the right legal wrangling, per the link from the Software Freedom Law Center?