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Lots of GPL advocates think they can re-license BSD as GPL because BSD is permissive. Of course, there is nothing in the BSD license allowing this, only the copyright holder can re-license.

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This isn't relicensing it's removed of a person's copyright. That would not go well if it was done to them.

The code in question was re-licensed under GPL without the author's permission. And according to the BSD license, the copyright must remain intact. A person can use BSD licensed code in a larger work under GPL or they can put the modifications under GPL, but they have no authority to change the original BSD license.

The belief of being able to re-license BSD code is quite prevalent in the Linux community and is often espoused here on Hacker News.

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