Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)
Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> writes:
> While they are distributing the whole as GPL (which is correct) they
> are actively stating that people can take a part of it that can only
> be used as GPL and use it under a different license, while whoever do
> so automatically terminates their own license on the whole FRR.
A downstream could remove the GPL dependencies (for example by replacing
it with a [dummy] re-implementation, or by removing any references) and
legally redistribute the result under a non-GPL license.
The current construct allows this, and this seems to be the intention of
the copyright owners of the questioned code. You may not like it, but
since the code writers do not derived from GPL code when they wroteg
their source (the GPL code is only used when it is compiled/linked),
they are free to do so.
Best
Ole
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