[talk] Licencing, looking for BSD perspectives on a GPL3 problem

[Justin Sherrill]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net>
wrote:

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> - How could this affect the BSD license?
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It's a question for lawyers and the courts, but I don't think it affects
BSD.  If someone modified BSD code and released their changed portion of
code under a different license, there's no forward reasoning in the BSD
license about what license that new code has to have, or being able to
change or revert the licensing.  If it's BSD licensed, it's BSD licensed,
and any additions are on their own. The argument in this case appears to be
about changes to additional code and if the license can be changed without
the approval of the authors.
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