On 12/23/2015 01:34 PM, LRN wrote: > I'm still not sure how this stands legally (IANAL, by the way) - is there > such thing as a "shared right to re-license"? I assume you've had some > legal advice in this regard.
Well, basically some variant of such a shared right to re-license is what the P=P people are asking us for (see: https://gnunet.org/gnunetev2015), and while IANAL it seems perfectly legal, starting with the basic "freedom of contract" concept. > And given that (as far as you've told us) this is not the usual copyright > assignment (as practiced by, say, FSF), how does it relate to other > copyright-assignment-ish things? Such as copyright enforcement (can "GNUnet > e.V." go after copyright infringers? Does it intend to?). Well, I guess it would put us into a better position to go after anyone infringing on the copyright, but that is not at all the *intention* behind my request. We also have no indications that there have been GPL-violations of the GNUnet code so far, and there are also no intentions by any of the parties involved to create non-free software or to abandon the GPLv3+. The only point is really that the need to dual- (or I guess multi-) license keeps coming up from time to time, and I think we should have a simple process to enable ethical re-use of the code base.
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