On 02/10/2011 05:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [ The different modes of development have already well established names. Look up Open Core, centralized copyright etc)
> note 1: Change of license is only possible if all the contributors agree > to the change. Even if one disagrees, his work has to be removed before > the license is changed. Which means that once the number of contributors > reaches a critical mass, change of license is impossible. Not really true. Number of contributors is irrelevant. What is important is diversity of copyright holders or the specific permissions provided by a contributions license agreement if one exists. MySQL or Openoffice.org or most of the FSF/GNU projects has a single copyright holder and that entity can change the license anytime they want to. Also not all contributions are worthy of copyright. > note 2: Although software cannot be stolen or made proprietary (only a > copy can be stolen or made proprietary), the owner of the copyright can > sell the copyright (as opposed to selling a copy). But if the number of > developers has reached a critical mass, selling the copyright is also > impossible. Copyright laws have several major differences depending on which part of the world we are talking about. In some places, public domain is not a legally recognized concept for instance. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
