When incorporating a copyleft licensed program with a lax licensed program, it is correct to preserve the original license notice. See also: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html base64.scm did not do this. This is important, because it is part of the license that the copyright header be preserved, so we must do this to comply correctly. (This is a common confusion: adding a stronger copyleft does not "relicense" the original work.) - Chris