Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

[Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Giacomo wrote:

> On March 18, 2019 4:44:09 PM UTC, Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> >
> > > I think I have seen MIT/BSD pieces of code in most of the GPL
> > projects
> > > I have looked into.
> >
> > Nothing in the advice I have received precludes the happy co-existence
> > of MIT/BSD code with GPL code in the same project.

You might want to have a look at [1]. Each module might have its own 
license but the whole work has to be licensed under GPL.
Maybe [2] helps as well when you replace "public domain" by MIT license.

  Thorsten



[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#IfLibraryIsGPL
[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#CombinePublicDomainWithGPL