Changing license
Hello,
I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now.
There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts
OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not aware of
the conflict, so they didn't add a proper exception. However, now they're not
sure if they can add this exception now. Many contributors have submitted
patches over time and, as upstream and I understand, copyright holders for
those patches are the contributors. So does Kadu's upstream have to ask
authors of all applied patches (which is simply not possible, because there's
no contact with many of them any more) for a permission to change the
license? Well, they have rights to their patches, but copyright holder for
Kadu is Kadu Team (http://www.kadu.net/wiki/index.php/English:Authors).
Could someone, please, clarify this?
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Patryk Cisek
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