Kevin, Brendan, Thank you very much for your answers.
[image: PrestaShop] <https://www.prestashop.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=emails-signatures> Antoine Thomas aka ttoine Developer Advocate t: +33 (0)6 63 13 79 06 antoine.tho...@prestashop.com On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 12:25, Kevin P. Fleming <kevin+...@km6g.us> wrote: > If the contributions were legitimately provided under an OSI-approved (or > similar) license, the license cannot be terminated for convenience. As a > result, anyone who received the code under that license can continue to > exercise all of the rights granted by the license (distribution, > modification, etc.) as long as they wish to do so. > > Of course the contributor can request that the project remove their > contributions, and the project can choose to do so, but there is no path > which would force the project to do so. > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:49 AM Antoine Thomas < > antoine.tho...@prestashop.com> wrote: > >> Hello dear OSI members, >> >> I have a "not easy" question: is it possible for a contributor to remove >> his contributions (code, translations, ...) from an open source project? >> And, if someone do that, is it possible for the project to continue to >> maintain the previous version, thanks to the license? (I mean, before the >> deletion) >> >> What copyright tells about this kind of situation? Are there some >> experience already? While it is easy to find blog articles, there is no >> clear statement on OSI and FSF websites on this touchy topic. >> >> A few articles: >> - https://hackaday.com/2018/09/27/can-you-take-back-open-source-code/ >> - >> https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-if-you-try-to-take-your-code-out-of-linux/ >> >> It seems that it's not really possible, but I would like to be sure. >> Could someone help me? In our case at PrestaShop, the project is >> distributed in OSL. I am currently reading it again to check if there is a >> part about this topic. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Antoine >> >> >> [image: PrestaShop] >> <https://www.prestashop.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=emails-signatures> >> >> Antoine Thomas aka ttoine >> >> Developer Advocate >> >> t: +33 (0)6 63 13 79 06 >> >> antoine.tho...@prestashop.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> License-discuss@lists.opensource.org >> >> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >> > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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