On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:58:55AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > >"Consolidated copyright of code also allows for the possibility of > >relicensing the whole code base should that become desirable. > It is definitely easier to relicense a program when you own the entire > copyright, because you don't have to give anyone notice. But nothing > there says it's the only possible method.
It doesn't say that consolidated copyright is the only method, true. But, the full bit of text I quoted does say that you need the unanimous agreement of every single contributor [i.e. copyright holder] if the copyright is not owned by one entity. Here's the relevant bit (all-caps words are my emphasis): "Without aggregated copyright, EVERY SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR must be contacted AND UNANIMITY REACHED in order to relicense a code base, or parts of the code must be reimplemented. This is true for all but the most permissively-licensed open source projects." Please quote less selectively and read more closely in the future. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
