Forking and relicensing issues

1999-05-09 Thread Ben Collins
Ok, I have a program that I intend to fork and start maintaing myself. The Copyright file contains this information (program name changed to protect the innocent): Redistribution and use in source and binary forms of Progfoo, wit

Re: Forking and relicensing issues

1999-05-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...license omitted...] Now what I want to know is: a) Can I just replace this file with the GPL (obviously the copyrights in the files will remain intact and all work will be attributed to the original authors)? It says you can, but I wouldn'

Re: Forking and relicensing issues

1999-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Ben Collins writes: > a) Can I just replace this file with the GPL (obviously the copyrights in > the files will remain intact and all work will be attributed to the > original authors)? Leave that file in place and add another one that explains that in accordance with the license on the original