A bit of research reveals a precedent for this when the Open Group transferred its copyright interests in X11 to X.org:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-October/018514.html > On Feb 3, 2021, at 21:31, Lev via cdesktopenv-devel > <cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > If getting Motif and CDE relicensed under X11 someday is still desirable, I > think having the CDE project become a member of Software in the Public > Interest (they already help manage the legal side of X.org, etc.) could be > helpful. > > There are a lot of advantages of relicensing: > - Less worries statically linking CDE/Motif binaries containing > GPL-incompatible source code > > - To my knowledge, there is no major X11 widget library available under X11 > terms except Xaw. This could give us a considerable boost within the *BSD > community. > > - We would share the same license as X.org, so potentially the entire stack > (X server, Xlib, Xt, Motif, CDE) would be available under uniform terms. This > might encourage contributions from commercial vendors, etc. > > As a legal entity, SPI could hold assets (trademarks, copyrights, etc.) in > trust for the CDE community indefinitely. Also, they would allow us to > receive tax-deductible donations, whether money, code, computer hardware, etc. > > As far as I can see, we haven’t been adding the MIT license to files that > have been changed, so presumably everything added is licensed under the LGPL. > I don’t think anyone wants a repeat of the Motif LGPL situation of tracking > contributors down and getting them to sign off. If we could arrange to offer > major contributors the possibility of assigning their copyright to a group > like SPI to hold in trust for CDE, that wouldn’t be a concern. > > Were there any plans in place for how we would go about convincing the Open > Group to relicense? > > Kind regards, > Lev > >> Hi Lev, >> >> Sorry, I don't know who this is really... What assistance are we looking >> for specifically? >> >> -jon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
