John Plocher <[email protected]> wrote: > Changing a license is amazingly simple in theory, yet complex enough > in practice to be nearly impossible: > > The owners of the current copyright simply need to decide to relicense > or dual license their code under a new license. > > Unfortunately, the tens of thousands of people who have contributed to > GNOME over the last decade or so probably aren't of the same mind as > to whether or not they wish to change, much less on which license they > wish to change to. And, unless they *ALL* agree to the same details, > it can't be changed.
In the European Copyright law as well as in the US Copyright law, you need to have a decsion that get's a majority of the contribution (not from lines but from Copyright relevant creation) and all contributors with more than aprox. 5% contributions need to vote for the change. I cannot speak for GNOME, but for e.g. the Linux kernel, you would need much less than 50 pro votes. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
