2009/4/27 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > 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.
Free software is usually a series of derivative works rather than a work of joint authorship. It doesn't make much sense, but that's how I understand it to work. (IANAL and when the law is as nonsensical as this, I don't intend to become one!) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
