[Babel-users] Babeld merged with GPL headers against copyright holders' wishes

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Paul Jakma has added GPL headers to the babeld code that he has merged
> into Quagga.  This was done against the wishes of Matthieu Boutier and
> myself, the main two authors of this code, and without the knowledge of
> the other authors.  Note that Paul did not simply ask us to add GPL
> headers as a condition for inclusion into Quagga; he added the headers
> himself, without asking us for permission.
>
> I find that rude.
>
> I therefore intend to do any further work in the quagga-RE repository [1],
> and would like to encourage anyone wishing to experiment with Babel to
> work either with the standalone Babel daemon [2] or the quagga-RE version.
>

It is in fact potentially a license violation in itself, other then
that I have always suggested babel be ported to xorp
which is in itself bsd licensed and in my opinion, far larger usage
share, and supported

> -- Juliusz Chroboczek
>
> [1] https://github.com/Quagga-RE/quagga-RE
> [2] http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/#download
>
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