FYI my name is kevin but admittedly I rarely use it online. I just read the GPL FAQ a few days ago and I would recommend everyone to read it but here is my understanding of the parts that affect us. First of all in order for something to be placed under GPL it must BE copyrighted and the author must state somewhere that it is copyrighted and under the GPL. If the person just says it's under the GPL but doesn't mention that it's copyrighted, the software can't be protected by the GPL and can legally be "stolen" (since the copyright is the only legal way to assert GPL rights). Now while it has never been officially stated I would assume anyone who didn't bother to list themselves in the authors page would fall under the catagory of not bothering to copyright their glob2 submissions and therefore we can do whatever we want with it (like put it in our program and license it under GPL3). On the other hand, the people who have put their names in the authors file we do need their permission (regardless of time) since by putting their name in they are assumed to be copyrighting their work under steph's original copyright statements at the beginning of each source file. Probably our best option is to get in touch with the free software foundation and ask them for help. They're the principle maintainers of the GPL and I'll bet they are probably getting asked similar questions by other groups of developers in a similar situation. I would not recommend just "waiting" to see what other groups do as there may be something specific to us we need to know about.
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 13:31 +0200, Stéphane Magnenat wrote: > > Relicensing is legal if all authors agree. > > by authors I mean copyright holders. > > Steph > _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
