On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 11:29 +0200, david blanchard wrote:
> It's not about the license, it's about ownership. If we own the code
> and assets, we can chose to allow someone to use it under the terms of
> another license (like MySQL for example).
> 
> To do this, we need to get copyright assignments from all contributors
> to the project, though - otherwise we won't be able to relicense those
> contributions. 

Exactly. And it can help prevent some licensing issues sometimes too -
for example, when a new version of the AGPL is released, we can switch
the whole codebase to this license without having to contact every
single contributor since the beginning of the project.

Xavier.

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