[clarry]

Thanks for expressing it so clearly. I'll quote you when the time comes.

The SFLC had a chance to set this straight in the aftermath of the inflammatory 2007 episode around the Atheros driver. Instead they dodged the entire relicensing question and released a set of guidelines which focus on where and how to preserve the copyright notice, and that rather seems to only have reinforced the idea that the permissive BSD style licenses are nothing more than a decorative text you must lug around. So we still have a huge number of people who think they can do anything (e.g. "relicense") as long as the decoration is kept in place. It really is a shame.