On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <200909101742.10364.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold > Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> writes >> ... So we'll have the same problem again in some years... By then it will be >> even harder tracking down all contributors, who submitted a patch years >> ago... >> > Hopefully we won't. Hopefully contributors will use the "or later" > version.
Oops, in my excitement over my *awesome* comic idea, I forgot the serious answer. One option would be to ask contributors to assign their copyright to a LilyPond Foundation, under the assumption that this foundation would choose the best license for LilyPond. Potentially even a non-GPL license, if a nicer license with similar terms comes along. This would avoid the relicensing issue. Of course, this plan is also weak against the "assassinate all members of the (lilypond) foundation" plot. Cheers, - Graham "maybe I should stop watching spy thrillers" Percival _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
