Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the >> "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He >> asserted that, as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so. >> >> But Plex86 included many contributions of different developers under the >> LGPL. In order to relicense, he'd need either to have permission from >> each of the copyright holders of the old Plex86 project, or >> remove/replace the code for which he doesn't own the copyright. > > For what it's worth, there have been a lot of vague mumblings about > authors of "joint works" being able to license the work without requiring > permission > from other authors. Even if true, it doesn't apply to "derivative works"; it would apply to cases where two people, together, wrote the work jointly, at one time -- not to a case where one person edited the preexisting work of another person. (Of course, that's a really fuzzy line.)
> However, I've yet to see confirmation of this from a > copyright lawyer, and I'm not aware of any major project actually doing > this. (I suppose it would be against the FSF's interests to confirm this, > since it > loosens the GPL's "hold" somewhat.) If anyone has a competent source on > this as it relates to free software, though, I'd be interested in it. > -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
