Copying GPL code from one project to another: Legal Question

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Feb 1, 2008 6:09 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Yaakov Nemoy (loupgaroublond at gmail.com) said:
> > I have a legal question that I'm not sure about.  I would like to copy
> > some code from snake, a project hosted on hosted.fp.o, written by
> > jlaska, copyrighted attributed to RH, into smolt, which the copyrights
> > are attributed to Mike McGrath.
>
> Note that just because part of smolt is attributed to Mike doesn't
> mean the whole thing needs be, unless he is requiring copyright
> assignment.

He isn't explicitly, but having a mixed copyright situation can cause
problems down the road.

-Yaakov