On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman  wrote:

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> >  recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the

> >  GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the

> > BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it.

>

> I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to

> GPL.  However, in some cases I think it is more useful not to do so,

> in order to contribute changes back to the original BSD-licensed

> project.

What? No.. it is wrong. You can't just change the license on people!

You might have meant "I don't think it is wrong in general to get

permission from the original authors to relicense code from BSD to

GPL" but it doesn't sound like that.

And in *all* cases it is useful not to do so, because you should

always be trying to integrate fixes upstream.
-Nick