Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: telnet cleanup

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

       All contributions to inetutils are licensed under the GPL

   It's common practice in GNU to keep the license of the original
   code, in the spirit of allowing the original upstream authors to
   benefit from our improvements.  For example, rms specifically said
   that our changes to firefox to make icecat should be under the same
   tri-license as firefox, even though ordinarily he would not want to
   use the MPL for GNU software.

I think we are missing each other somewhere.  All contributions to
inetutils are licensed under the GPL, but the original code from
BSD4.4 Lite -- which inetutils is based on -- is under the 3-clause
BSD license; which does not include a relicense clause so we could not
relicense the work even if we wanted to.  The tri-license of
Icecat/Firefox is a different situation, since it contains a explicit
relicense clause where one can pick the license.

   Granted that the English can be interpreted in both ways, the
   former (desired) interpretation is the intent and the lawyers gave
   it their blessing.

Thanks for the check!