On 4/23/2015 10:57 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
Github already allows this, it also makes sure modifications are correctly authored (at least with the author specified in the commit, which can easily be faked). It think it is completely fair, the author published their source for others to use and modify, if someone else can pick up that maintenance fairly easily then they have achieved their goal, otherwise it will die with their loss of interest.
It's one of the reasons we promote using the Boost license. It enables anyone to pick up the fallen flag.
