BSD licence

[Przemysław Kulczycki]

Sebastian Heinlein pisze:
> Am Sonntag, den 29.06.2008, 03:16 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
>> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 09:11 +0200, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
>>> How can I merge my translation upstream if they use an alternative
>>> licence, e.g. GPL? They would have to include a quiet odd licence
>>> statement, right?
>> Changing anything from BSD to GPL is easy.  It's the reverse that's
>> impossible.
> 
> But what about translations/suggestions made from other people? I would
> have to ask every translator if he or she agrees to the re-licensing. So
> I would have to write a lot of emails.

You don't have to. You can include BSD-licensed translations in upstream 
GPL translations with asking anyone. The whole work gets a GPL license 
because of GPL's reciprocity clause, and the BSD-licensed parts stay 
under BSD license. You just have to keep license notices in the 
BSD-licensed parts.
See Software Freedom Law Center's publication: "Maintaining 
Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for 
Developers"
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html


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