Ah, yes... I wasn't talking about reassignment, and failed to note
Jay's use of the term. Perhaps he actually meant "relicense"? It's so
easy to get tangled up in the terminology...

--Jean

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:18, Dennis E. Hamilton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Reassignment is different than adding a license or providing the material 
> under an additional/different license.
>
> Reassignment is about copyright.  Let's not go there.
>
> Still, offering a license from a multiple-author work does raise issues about 
> the arrangement among those authors and how such things as assignment and 
> licensing are arrived at.  That's whatever the arrangement is and what it 
> allows.  I have nothing to say about any matter of that sort.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Weber [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 00:33
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:20, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like it is best to stick with a Creative Commons license only for LO
>> with the author(s) having the rights to reassign to others as they wish. The
>> problem with reassignment, if I understand copyrights, is that all the
>> holders must agree or it not valid.
>
> I disagree. Dennis has covered well in various notes the situation
> with including the Apache license in a dual license arrangement.
>
> [ ... ]
>
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