License Change: GPL -> BSD?

[Warren Togami]

I noticed that "dhcpv6 license correction" is a correction noting that 
dhcpv6 was labeled as GPL but it is really BSD.

Is it really necessary to advertise a license change from more 
restrictive to less restrictive license?

GPL -> BSD will never cause a new conflict right?

Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:57 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>  I noticed that "dhcpv6 license correction" is a correction
> noting that 
>  dhcpv6 was labeled as GPL but it is really BSD.
>  
>  Is it really necessary to advertise a license change from more 
>  restrictive to less restrictive license?
>  
>  GPL -> BSD will never cause a new conflict right? 
If I had a patch that copied GPL code into it, then yes I'd like to be
notified of it no longer being gpl, since that does have implications...

(fwiw I dont have such a patch)

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:57:59 -0400
Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I noticed that "dhcpv6 license correction" is a correction
> noting
>  that dhcpv6 was labeled as GPL but it is really BSD.
>  
>  Is it really necessary to advertise a license change from more 
>  restrictive to less restrictive license?
>  
>  GPL -> BSD will never cause a new conflict right? 
Does it really matter?  It doesn't cause any harm to announce it.

josh

[Todd Zullinger]

Warren Togami wrote:
>  I noticed that "dhcpv6 license correction" is a correction
> noting
>  that dhcpv6 was labeled as GPL but it is really BSD.
>
>  Is it really necessary to advertise a license change from more
>  restrictive to less restrictive license?
>
>  GPL -> BSD will never cause a new conflict right? 
Even if it can't cause a conflict, it seems like it's worth noting.
It may allow for another package to make use of the package that has
just gone from GPL to BSD.  New restrictions are important, but so are
new freedoms.  (I'm not sure if there are any actual examples of this
in Fedora...)

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