2009/4/27 <[email protected]>: > In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:12:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes:
>> Yes, and, absent any agreement to the contrary, any one of those same >> authors may grant a free licence.>> > I'm very suspicious of this claim. > If I and seven other own a piece of property, I alone cannot sell it to a > prospective buyer. The same would hold of copyright. Although each owner > has a copyright, a single owner cannot grant away the entire right to a third > party. It also doesn't sound right from the practices for free software - where relicensing is a massive pain in the backside because of the need to get agreement from all contributors. Hence the "or later" language recommended for the GPL - and the GFDL, hence a mere vote on relicensing being possible. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
