[License-review] Sublicensing

[Engel Nyst]

On 09/14/2014 12:32 PM, Jim Wright wrote:
> Reading "the whole" as really meaning only the original GPLed work,
> not actually the whole of the code, after you insert some code
> otherwise licensed under a permissive license, seems inconsistent
> with the clear intent to me, and makes me wonder if one, under the
> suggested interpretation, could also author and license
> modifications arbitrary modifications to GPL code under the BSD
> (which again, seems contrary to the intent).

I don't think so. Modifications to GPL code are not independent works,
by definition. They're derivative from GPL code, and of course then
/they/ cannot be licensed under BSD.

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