Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
The problem we have run into is that there are community members who wish to have at least the work that comes out of mail list discussions to be able to be used in their GPL-ed code. Now, it's our interest as a project to produce things with the widest usability, and wish to ensure that the "free software" communities are able to fully participate in what we are doing, and be able to take the results of our architecture work and implement themselves, to make more software interoperable.
1.) I must admit, that I wasn't aware, that mailing list postings are subject to copyrights and licenses. However, now that I get used to the thought, my impression is this: If any license does apply, then the first license I would think of, is ASL2. In particular, if all other mailing lists have this license. In other words, a different license seems to me an actual reason for confusion.
2.) I am no legal expert, but if a user posts some code to a mailing list, then I would assume, that he's still the copyright holder (if the posting is copyrightable at all). But if so, then he may as well choose to post or use the same code somewhere else under a different license.
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