Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread John Cowan
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Note that this only applies in the USA, not, for example, > in Germany, where such a thing is impossible. > Well, yes and no. It is impossible to transfer the moral rights, but since 2008 the right of exploitation of

Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Woolley dixit: > On 29/07/17 10:27, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: >> The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. >> I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright. > > You should get the copyright owner to assign copyright to you, as, Note that this only applies

Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread David Woolley
On 29/07/17 10:27, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright. You should get the copyright owner to assign copyright to you, as, currently, no-one is able to enforce the licence except for

Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 29. July 2017 11.16, David Woolley wrote: > On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > > I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip > > What do you mean by the maintainer? The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. I am continuing the development, but

Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread David Woolley
On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip What do you mean by the maintainer? If you are the actual copyright owner, you can distribute it under any licence you like, as long as you continue to honour requests to supply the source code

Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Henrik Ingo
My layman understanding is that that is exactly what it says. On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > Hi. > I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip > The code licence is stated as follows: > > == > * This program is free software; you can

[License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
Hi. I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip The code licence is stated as follows: == * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2