Re: One unclear point in the Vim license
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Theoretically this would be possible. However, for the software to be
> distributed with another license every person that contributed would have
> to agree with it, since each person has the copyright for the part he
> contributed under the GPL. Since there hardly ever is an explicit
> mentioning of what license is used for the contributed part, implicitly
> the currently active license applies. Well, I'm not a lawyer but that's
> how I interpret what I heard (it might actually be different for various
> countries).
Wouldn't this apply to you changing the license *at all*? (For example,
removing the "send-changes-upstream" clause.)
By the way, are you subscribed to debian-legal? You're getting dropped
from some CCs in subthreads.
--
Glenn Maynard
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