On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:50, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> wrote: >> >>> Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense >>> all >>> of the contributions it has received. >> >> >> As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source >> licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license >> agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under any >> license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions. > > Yeah... that is kind of a disadvantage for when they may choose to > upgrade or modify their licensing. > > Apache's CLA process gives us flexibility in altering our license. It > is not a copyright assignment (whew!), so we don't have total > flexibility. But we have enough... :-) >
Plus, of course, we have IP tracking as well, which is a *considerable* consideration... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
