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On 2/10/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have omitted only from that sentence.
>
> Why are we talking about MPL, etc? Is there any code here that isn't BSD
> licensed, other than FindBugs and Cobertura?
>
> - Brett
>
> Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> > On 2/10/06, 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:
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > AFAIK ASL or MPL doesn't allow you to relicense the work, you have to
> > keep the license.
> >
> > You're right about that it's not to bad, i think for mojos MPL that
> > we'd like to move over apache we would just need to keep the MPL
> > headers and add ASFL header and say that parts of the work are under
> > MPL and other parts are under ASFL
> >
>
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