Bjorn Reese wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:34, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > No it is the other way around: if the program is released under a less > > restricted license, e.g. xfree86-ish, then you could always, without > > the consent of contributors, change to (L)GPL for newer versions. The > > Maybe I am missing something, but why do you think that you can > change the XFree86 license without the consent of contributors?
The X license permits sublicensing. So it permits incorporation of the X software into a larger work which is then distributed under another license, e.g. the GPL. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3