Re: future of quail
Hauke Fath writes:
... stripped of the respective BSD license, as you failed to
add. Because that's the usual problem in those cases[1].
Please don't spread FUD. The case you cite is not a "usual" problem
with incorporation of BSD code in a GPL project. It is apparently
infringement, pure and simple, and would be so regardless of the
license applied later. OTOH, the GPL advocates I know are happy to
maintain copyright and permissions notices, and would be horrified by
this case (at least because it provide FUD fodder). In most cases, as
a matter of principle, and in any case, the BSD notice hardly matters,
since in most practical cases it is infeasible to disentangle the new,
GPL code from the old, BSD code, so effectively it's all GPL. (Cf.
the (no) permission notice in the old O'Reilly "X Window System"
series.)
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