>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>If you are the author you may put the under whatever license you like.
>You can put code that you have written under whatever license(s)
>you like. However, when you accept code contributions from other
>people into your source code, they are the copyright owner of
>that code. In order to _change_ the license of the software, you
>must get all of the people who have ever contributed code to the
>software to agree to the license change, or to assign the
>copyright of the code they've contributed to you. Only once all
>parties have agreed to the license change and/or reassigned their
>copyright to you, can you change the license of the code, or
>release it under a multiple license which they've agreed to.
>I can't speak for every software author or contributor out there,
>but I know if anyone ever changed the license on a GPL'd piece of
>software and that I had contributed to under the terms of the GPL
>license, and I had not explicitly handed them my copyright and
>did not agree to the license change, I would be calling a lawyer
>instantly.
AFAIK, I am the only author who did major contributions and I _do_
already allow this kind of usage with cdrecord....
Minor contributors have no own rights on the work.
>If in doubt however, one should contact a copyright/patent
>lawyer.
You definitely should...
J�rg
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