On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:44:52AM +0000, Frank Hecker wrote: > If the > material in the work were contributed under a broad enough CLA, it > would not be necessary to go back to the original organization for > permission to relicense.
FWIW, we've experienced this exact situation with the Fedora Project CLA, but in (sort-of) reverse. Because there are many thousands of individuals who contributed to the project wiki, it is too onerous to get individual permissions for relicensing from the OPL to the CC-BY-SA. Instead, we are using the broad grant under the project CLA to do the relicensing of wiki content. Thinking that the contributor base here is smaller, I figured a similar need wouldn't arise. However, I see the usefuless in Frank's point about the CLA helping a signing organization to contribute. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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