On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:44:13AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Andrew Stribblehill writes: > > | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or > > | derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with Request > > | Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you are the > > | copyright holder for those contributions and you grant Best Practical > > | Solutions, LLC a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, > > | perpetual, license to use, copy, create derivative works based on those > > | contributions, and sublicense and distribute those contributions and > > | any derivatives thereof. ... > > Regardless of whether or not this can be enforced in specific > > countries, it is now compatible with the GPL as far as I can tell.
> [snip] > > Can anyone who had a problem with the old licence appendage confirm > > that the new one looks okay? > > It looks good to me. In addition to looking legally correct, it is > clear that it's not a license condition, but a condition of submitting > changes upstream. I can't tell if this is clear. If it's alongside the license, I'd suspect it was intended as a license condition. (Otherwise, how could it possibly have any force?) If so, it definitely seems GPL-incompatible; it's a restriction not present in the GPL. I don't know if that matters. -- Glenn Maynard
