> According to the GPL FAQ, the copyright holder is allowed to reliscense > their works as they please, (as with the Bernes convention). We can not > enforce a new copyright on the copies people already have, but we can > release new versions with a changed license based on the same works, being > that we own the copyright. Since there are multiple contributors, this > involves multiple people wanting to change their portions to the new > license, (I could relicense my source files as one and you keep the others > but thats pointless), as we need everyone in order to move the whole > project to GPL v3.
Exactly. > This clause, however, is the legal permission to relicense to a later > version of GPL by any contributor. People who have made contributations > know that their copyrighted material may be found under a different > license, namely GPL 3 or GPL 4 or so on, so we can legally change the > license to GPL v3 without them. Yes, and according to Cyrille, this clause itself is illegal and thus null in most European jurisdictions. I'm no layer so I can't check this statement. Steph -- http://stephane.magnenat.net _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
