RE: licencing and modules

> Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:
>
> > IIRC Harvest was originally under a BSD license. How was it possible
> > to change that to a GPL for Squid then?
>
> Harvest was not BSD licensed (see "CREDITS"), but I am pretty
> sure Duane
> can provide details as it is he who made the transition from Harvest
> Cached to Squid GPL (both in person and source, I only witnessed the
> source transition and had email contact with Duane during the time).
>
> It is generally possible to go from BSD to GPL, but not the other way
> around.

Now that I think about it, you're right :-)

> Well, technically it is possible for the copyright
> holder to go
> from GPL to any license form, but only if great care has been taken in
> how contributions to the GPL code has been accepted (which is not the
> case in case of Squid).

"great care" usually means "all your copyright are belongs to us".
I'm quite happy such a care hasn't been used :-)

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	/kinkie