On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:45:23 +0800 "Paul Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2.A Could you not just make (and document) every effort to contact the > existing authors with an "If you object to this new licensing > arrangement (which is fundamentally a holier than thou, close to > public domain approach) then contact us within 6 months." Type > approach, then release a set of sources under the new license... If > anyone decides they object at a later date then 2.B applies to them > and there will be no real consequences. No. Here is my reasoning: A. Let's assume that we know the name and address of every contributor. There are no unknown contributors. We hire a private process server to hand deliver a written notice of your proposal to all of the contributors. Then what? B. Nothing obligates the recipients to open or read your message. C. Even if the recipients read your message, this places no obligation on them to respond whether they agree or disagree with your proposal. D. Their non-response does not affect their ability to defend their copyright later on if desired. I'm not saying that polling the folks around here to ascertain what the majority wants is a useless idea though. Thanks, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
