[quagga-users 14782] Re: FRR or Quagga

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Paul Jakma wrote:

> 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.

Oh, and obviously, that has implications for further distribution by 
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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