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

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

> On Mar 5, 2025, at 7:46 PM, Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
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> 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.

Did I just fail my bar exam?  :)

Justin I see now- thanks.
If this is all about additional code changes, well, whatever- that's all just GPL3 complexity to me.

Best,
.ike