> It is difficult to see what you feel is a problem here? > > 1. You're a user and you want to avoid the risk that the author (...) > 2. You're the author and want to prevent *yourself* from switching to (...) > 3. You're one of several authors and want to prevent the others from > taking the work proprietary without your permission. In most > jurisdictions this will happen automatically - any distribution > at all requires the agreement of all authors, and if someone is > considering distributing under circumstances that are not allowed > under your earlier agreeement to licence under, say, GPL, then > they need to ask you (and all other authors) for permission. > I dimly remember that there may be jurisdictions (America?) where > any of several joint authors can authorize copying if only he > splits the profits fairly with other authors. To be paranoid, you > might want to draft a contract with the other authors where you > explicitly promise each other not to do that.
that is the *question*. so a contract can guarantee the license's perenity... that might be a good thing associated to multiple copyrights. It can be the right thing to do :c) Thanks for your patience. :c) -- Baptiste SIMON aka BeTa Administrateur Système GNU/Linux & Unix 3, av. de la Calypso 44000 Nantes 06 75 79 28 48
