On Sunday, 08. July 2007 20:15:31 Harald van Dijk wrote: > > No, you have to get permission of the copyright holders. Which, in > > this case, is the Foundation. > Could you back that up, please? I was looking for something to confirm > or deny this myself, but didn't find anything.
It's in the copyright notice of every single ebuild: "# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation" Thus, the copyright owner/holder is the Gentoo Foundation. The Foundation can therefore decide to change the licence. > "Note that the Foundation would never change the license used for the > code or documentation, if that could be set in stone that would be > even better." > Is this still relevant? Hopefully not as it is, stated as simple as that, not very wise. It's probably *meant* to say that the Foundation will never switch to a closed-source model but it shouldn't rule out switching to GPL-3 should that turn out to be desirable. Best regards, Wulf
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