Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While Linus may be the de-facto Linux spokesperson, he does not hold
> the many thousands of copyrights to Linux so he does not "own" the
> work. It is a hopeless case. The FSF was a bit wiser since they made
> sure that everyone who contributed to their projects signed over the
> copyrights to them (a tedious process to be sure).
Linus together with a "few" other people could change the license for Linux.
He only needs to make sure that these people cover more than 50% of the code
and that no single contributor who owns more than 5% of the whole source
remains unasked.
It seems that less than 50 people need to agree on the license change.
Jörg
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