As food for thought, many projects mandate a grant of copyright license to an foundation or other organization when committing, e.g.:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html I do not mean by the links above to suggesting any particular license, but if the work is to be done to contact authors anyway I would put the suggestion of a copyright license grant into the mix as one option for former and current contributors, especially those falling on the permissive side of the license discussion. It might help to future-proof licensing decisions or at least make the problem simpler over time. I am not sure that linuxcnc currently has the legal or organizational structure to pull something like that off, and it is certainly a more nuanced discussion than "would you be willing to add 'or later' to your GPLv2 code". Further, my to-date pitiful contributions don't give me the standing to even really suggest such a thing, and I would not fault anyone that has made legitimate contributions for deriding the idea as laughable, but I did preface this as "food for thought" after all. Scott On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > Matt Shaver wrote: > > > > Anyone? Agree? Disagree? Don't care, but want to complain anyway? :) > > > > > Well, we want to keep LinuxCNC under the least restrictive license we > can, or > at least I think that is what the general consensus has been. All this > license > stuff just gives me a headache, really, I just haven't taken the time to > understand > the fine points of all this, or maybe I'm just not cut out to be a lawyer! > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
