On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 05:27, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > > The LICENSE will not be changed, only the copyright holder, so Bacula will > > continue to be distributed under GPL version 2 + a few additions that are > > specified in the LICENSE file. When GPL version 3 is released, we'll take > > a > > look at whether or not we want to use it (with input from Bacula users, of > > course). > > I'm a bit confused about the connection between copyright ownership and the > license. Are there any issues with changing the license if you don't own the > copyright? Conversely, can the copyright owner change the license without > consulting anyone else?
Copyright owners can release a work under different licenses at the same or different times. However with a work that has been released under any sort of public license it would be pretty difficult to prove that parts of the code were not actually owned by other contributors unless the person claiming ownership has been careful to obtain copyright assignments from anything he has accepted and included from others. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
