On Friday 10 November 2006 15:01, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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.
Well, I have been pretty careful in regard to getting copyright assignments from any major contribution (i.e. more than 20% of any single file). In more recent times, the copyright assignments are explicitly signed, in some older cases, it is by email or the fact that the author of the code explicitly copyrighted it under my name. There is some cleanup work to be done, so I suspect that some of the previous contributors may be contacted by FSFE (to be worked out). In any case, the Bacula copyright assignment policy has been clearly spelled out from the beginning of the project in the Developer's guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
