Sven Neumann wrote: > Simply using the code, removing the copyright notices > and putting it under a non-compatible license is however > too much if you ask me and we shouldn't let Carsten get > away with this. > The course of action that suggests itself to me is to enlist the aid of the Free Software Foundation at a fairly early stage, since Mr. Carsten's effort dilutes the force of an FSF license. (1) Enlist FSF counsel. (2) The legion authors and contributors to the xcf code base collectively write to Mr. Carsten, and first observe that with a correlation of somewhere in the neighborhood of 80%, it appears that Mr. Carsten is distributing a work derived from that released under a FSF General Public License, and while that license does not preclude his redistribution, it does require that the GPL be attached to the redistributed code, and that the GPL does not permit relicensing. The FSF counsel is CC'ed on this, and one hopes that - under the gaze of many original authors - Mr. Carsten folds his hand. He may not, of course, but that will be the juncture where FSF counsel is already familiar with the issue and can decide what FSF resources can be allocated in defence of its license. Garry Osgood
