Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:48:52PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> > Please consider that in the Oracle vs Google case, Oracle ended up with
> > 9-line copying (plus a few test files), and the judge decided that *as*
> > *a* *matter* *of* *law* copyright infringement had occurred for those 9
> > lines.
> 
> Yes. And also told Oracle that it was very limited what they could
> claim as damage caused by the copyright infringement over those 9
> lines.
> 
> Yes, those 9 lines belong to you my precious butterfly. No, they are
> not significant and this is all a waste of time.

But Google are not permitted to redistribute that code. If a work is 
relicensed without the assent of all copyright holders then the work is 
undistributable, no matter how small any damages might be.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org