> 1) can Alice can regain ownership of the right? > > What about 1)? How could Alice go about it??
Regain ownership? What do you mean by that? Have her name inscribed on a rock somewhere? Or regain her authority and dominion over a work that she previously abandoned so that she can prevent people from doing what she previously permitted them to do? I agree with a previous email, this is probably a question of equitable estoppel. I don't know why it would any different if one granted an "irrevocable" open source license, and then revoked it. Probably a new licensee with notice of the revocation can't obtain a license. Does this have practical implications for any real-world scenario, or are we just speculating here? /Larry Rosen -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
