Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:40:20PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
[...]
> > In other words, Canonical gets the right to take a free software
> > contribution and make it proprietary. The contributors gets to own the
> > software, and can continue releasing it as free software, but can't
> > prevent Canonical from making non-free versions of it. I don't find
> > that an acceptable situation.
>
> But I saw today that this paragraph goes on with:
>
> As a condition on the exercise of this right, We agree to also
> license the Contribution under the terms of the license or
> licenses which We are using for the Material on the Submission
> Date.
>
> My understanding (as a non-expert on legalese en_*) is, that Canonical
> would only be allowed to re-license the Contribution under a
> dual-license scheme, with (a) the original license, and (b)
> $whatever-they-want.
[...]
Yes, but that says nothing about the rest of the program that it's a
part of, nor that they will continue to distribute the Contribution.
Since the contributor, retaining copyright, can give that license to
anyone anyway, this condition doesn't appear to have any meaningful
effect.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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