Re: [License-discuss] Can a contributor take back open source code ?

2019-04-24 Thread Antoine Thomas
Kevin, Brendan, Thank you very much for your answers. [image: PrestaShop] Antoine Thomas aka ttoine Developer Advocate t: +33 (0)6 63 13 79 06 antoine.tho...@prestashop.com On Wed, 24 Apr

Re: [License-discuss] Can a contributor take back open source code ?

2019-04-24 Thread Brendan Hickey
Can a license be terminated under section 203 ( https://www.copyright.gov/docs/203.html) after twenty five years? A contributor can also make life difficult for users. After a spat with the Belgian government, the author of iText changed the license to the AGPL and started making threats against u

Re: [License-discuss] Can a contributor take back open source code ?

2019-04-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
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, e

[License-discuss] Can a contributor take back open source code ?

2019-04-24 Thread Antoine Thomas
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