Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Question: for a particular source file, if a person contributed a > minor patch or tweak to compile on a new platform, does that person > now have a "full" say in the future of that source, or are they giving > their changes to the author of that file to be placed under the > license terms chosen by the primary author.
It goes by change, not by file. They contributed a patch under an existing license, not a new one. So you can't legally change their license without removing the patch; nothing gives you the right to their work. In practice, what this means is that you need to get "most" of the developers on board. If someone doesn't agree, you need to be prepared to remove their code and reimplement it. You don't necessarily need to remove every 2-line patch submitted on the assumption that the author doesn't agree. It's enough to announce the license change in the appropriate forum for FlightGear development (here, of course) and expect that people interested will notice and tell you about problems. IANAL, of course. But this is the way it's worked in other projects (Wine, especially) that have gone through license changes. But under no circumstances can you relicense someone else's code over their objections. If someone makes a stink, you have to snip it out. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
