Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

Posted Sep 6, 2007 8:43 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right by ncm
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

What happened is very simply explained if one assumes that Theo initially thought that the code in question was not dual-licensed, but only BSD-licensed. As usual it got lost in the noise, but his earliest statements said as much. And his argument - that the terms of the BSD licence absolutely forbid removing the text, and anyone so doing would lose any of their BSDL-granted rights - would be perfectly correct for code which was originally only available under a BSD licence.