Agreed. The misconception is that the last guy to modify some code not created by that person gets to put his license over all of it.
>From that point on, there are no valid deductions. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Simon Phipps [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:41 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question related derivative code based on our Apache licensed code On 4 Jan 2012, at 20:28, Joe Schaefer wrote: > It depends on how that is actually done: There is indeed plenty of detail to take into consideration, and we could ping-pong the discussion around many nuances if we wanted to (for example: there's often no need to edit the file to change the way it is licensed as part of a larger work). One benefit there seems to be from having me join a thread is people add a lot more detail to the discussion in order to correct me, even when we agree. Suffice to say we're generally agreed that Jürgen's original assumption ("This code becomes automatically Apache licensed, correct?") is probably not right :-) S. [IANAL & DNPOOTV]=
