Julien made an interesting request that we relicenze OpenJUMP under the GPL version 3. I wanted to discuss this request in a separate thread, because I think it is a very important discussion.
My first question would be: Do we have the authority to relicense OpenJUMP? I would think this authority to relicense OpenJUMP would lie with Vivid Solutions, and all of our contributors that maintain copyright over there code. I believe this means we can't relicense OpenJUMP, even if we wanted to. This is one disadvantage of allowing contributors to keep the copyright to their patches/improvements to OpenJUMP. If we could get Vivid Solutions to agree to relicense the JUMP code in OJ, we'd still have to get agreements from all of our pass contributors. That is going to be tough. :] Comments? The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
