On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:00:34 -0500 "Tlamaki GNU/Linux" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 21:42 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:59:37 +0100 > >> Paul O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > On 05/10/10 00:56, Karl Berry wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mmv/mmv_1.01b-14/mmv.copyright > >> > > > Clearly nonfree. > >> > > > Then they should change the license to actually *be* > >> > > > the GPL :). > >> > >> > This message is to serve as an announcement that I am changing > >> > the copyright of mmv to GPL. > >> > >> Does this mean we need to get confirmation from the other > >> contributors (as listed) to get their code re licenced too? > > > > Maybe. Can someone track down when they added their code? The > > answer might be different depending on whether that happened before > > or after the license was changed to the GPL. > > Respect to the developer and your license: > ... [cut] > ... > Requested to provide a release by adding a free license. Only he is > capable of that. He has the willingness to change the license but the He already has, read the section Paul quoted. > good will is not enough in practice. > :-) We need /all/ contributors to relicence, not just the primary author. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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