Am 21.05.2014 11:47, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 21 May 2014 10:43, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: >>> How many % of the overall commits does that make? IIRC you can >>> relicense source code if the "majority of authors" agrees and nobody >>> actively disagrees - or so. But IANAL :) >> >> You can get away with infringing copyright if nobody actively sues you. >> >> Sorry, not an option. We have to rip out contributions we can't get >> relicensed. Except for contributions that don't qualify for copyright >> protection, but that's shaky ground; let's not go there. > > Presumably if IBM has an active interest in helping us to fix this > they can provide an actual lawyer's legal opinion, so we don't > need to make amateur guesses about what we need to do...
Well, in a previous case, IBM's legal department didn't manage to relicense trivial malloc -> g_malloc changes by Anthony, so I wouldn't set my hopes too high... confirming that relicensing someone's contribution without their consent was not an option so far. Cheers, Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
