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. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
