On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:35:17PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > > That's a good question: I thought, since we offer the content in dual > > licensing (people who receive it are free to use it under the terms of > > the MIT *or* GPL2+), that we (the authors) have to offer it under both > > licenses (MIT *and* GPL2+), but my understanding of legal logic can be > > flawed. > > It is actually correct: the "OR" is for the final recipients, the "AND" > is for the contributors that need to relicense their material.
I think original text was good enough too since we are asking the contributors. But if that makes some people worry .. here is a suggestion. When people writing contract worries "AND" to imply "BOTH...AND" and "OR" to imply "EITHER...OR", I see many contract text uses "and/or" there to be explicit about all combinations as an ugly legalese. This clarifies recipient does not need to take both as obligation. ----------------------8<----------------------8<---------------------- I hereby give permission to relicense all the material that I have provided to the Debian website under the terms of the MIT (Expat) License and/or of the GNU General Public License, version 2 and any later version. ---------------------->8---------------------->8---------------------- A bit pedantic but safer... Any thought? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120127132324.GA6605@localhost
