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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: base64: Restore original license header (license compliance issue)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inumodd7.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg5b8et9.fsf@dustycloud.org>


Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> 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.)

Thank you for this patch.  I’m not familiar with these licensing details
but what you write looks plausible to me.

~~ Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-27  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 20:18 base64: Restore original license header (license compliance issue) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-08-27  7:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-08-27 13:48   ` Christopher Allan Webber

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