On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:08:21PM -0500, Justin Shore wrote:
> I don't have any information about this either, only a thought.  If I
> contributed code to an open source project like SA, I'm contributing it
> under the conditions of whatever licensing scheme(s) the project already
> utilizes.  Because of that my code couldn't subsequently be taken by even
> the original author of said project and rereleased under another license,
> can it?  I'd expect this to be the case unless the license I'm
> contributing the code under says that I'm really just giving the original
> author a gift of code and relinquishing all my rights to it.  Then it
> would become the original author's property to do with as they please,
> presumably.  I don't know, just tossing out the first thought that popped
> into my mind.

IANAL, but I think you'd have to agree to a new license, or the author
would have to remove your code.

-- 
Duncan Findlay

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