[quagga-users 14781] Re: FRR or Quagga

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

> At least on FreeBSD, net/frr is a port and therefore, switching
> between quagga and free looks pretty straigtforward.

The Quagga project had informal legal advice years ago on something. 
The principle of which everyone accepted (whether it convenient or not) 
at the time.

Later, certain people now with FRR disagreed with that advice. We took 
formal legal advice, based on a query Martin Winter helped formulate, 
from a solicitor who looked at the actual code.

The same advice came back.

Based on that advice, the manner in which FRR are distributing the 
Quagga codebase is not in accordance with the GPL licence given with the 
work. Therefore, the general GPL licence on that code base is not 
available to them to distribute that code-base, and they are infringing 
upon the copyright of others.

I object to any of my code being distributed in a manner that is at odds 
with the advice we received. Advice which at least some FRRers are aware 
of.

regards,
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