On 10/02/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure Jeff's email isn't policy. People generally just > document it as copyright of the ASF. > > Carlos Sanchez wrote: > > This legal stuff drives me crazy ;) > > I'll try to read that long mail, but my concern is the following, > > let's suppose something contributed to the ASF (not mojo) > > > > If the copyright holder is a person, its permission needs to be > > obtained in order to do some stuff like change the license. The ASF > > changed license from v.1 to v.2 and it can happen in the future. If > > that person is not available anymore (eg. the person dies), the change > > of license can't be done (or at least would be hard) > > > That's only true for the GPL where you aren't allowed to. The ASL let's > you change the license if you want as long as the notice is in tact. > > With mojos happen that if the community decide to move it from mojo to > > maven at ASF we need to change the license from MIT to Apache, and > > looking for agreement from all parties would be difficult. > > > Not necessary, the license allows it. Besides, half the stuff here is > ASL anyway. > > - Brett > And since I am going to change the license anyways, Should I change it to ASL ? Only choose MIT since that was the recommended license at the mojo project
/Kaare
