From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 23:53:05 +0100

Re: fbcon-kgi.c licensing problem

Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> 
> > Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > >         This file is still GPLed.  Therefore, all of KGIcon is currently
> > > illegal |-<. This should be changed to the KGI license, pronto.  I give
> > > my consent - Andrew and Marcus will need to do so as well.
> >
> > It's definitely not illegal - the Linux kernel is GPLed, and KGI
> > drivers are GPLed when you want them to be (as in you can relicense
> > them under basicly any license I've seen).
> 
>         That is not how I understood sublicensing to work.  If it worked
> like you said, the different licenses would conflict because you are
> trying to apply all of them at the same time to the same code.  To
> sublicense, you have to duplicate (fork) all the existing code and change
> the license on that, correct?

Well, the idea is that if you want to use GGI/KGI code under GPL you
just sublicense the code to your linker. ;)

//Marcus
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