On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> > wrote: > > > >> Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense > >> all > >> of the contributions it has received. > > > > As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source > > licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license > > agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under any > > license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions. > > Unable is a strong word. I given that we are talking about > historically recent contributions, I would think that it would be > possible to identify and reach out to those who made these > contributions. These people, after all, DO hold the copyrights. > > In fact, these people can readily add themselves to the wiki right now > and send in an ICLA and commit these changes themselves once the > project arrives here; at which point the TDF has a clean base upon > which to build. > Unable is the correct word. /TDF/ is unable to to relicense. If all those individuals choose to commit changes at ASF they can naturally do so, but that wasn't how I understood Noel's question. S.
