On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Theoretically this would be possible. However, for the software to be > distributed with another license every person that contributed would have > to agree with it, since each person has the copyright for the part he > contributed under the GPL. Since there hardly ever is an explicit > mentioning of what license is used for the contributed part, implicitly > the currently active license applies. Well, I'm not a lawyer but that's > how I interpret what I heard (it might actually be different for various > countries).
Wouldn't this apply to you changing the license *at all*? (For example, removing the "send-changes-upstream" clause.) By the way, are you subscribed to debian-legal? You're getting dropped from some CCs in subthreads. -- Glenn Maynard
