Re: Release Notes: license clarification
On 2008-08-25 23:36, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Why do I have to be on top of the list of copyright mischief?! ;)
Your name is the first in the author list :~)
> Obviously the implicit copyright "all rights reserved" would apply by default,
> but given that all contributions were explicitly published by all of the
> authors, I think that considering the work to be released into the public
> domain is a perfectly reasonable legal scenario, until decided otherwise.
You try to apply logic and common sense - but we're talking
about law - worse, copyright law.
> I hereby confirm that my edits can be distributed under the GNU General
> Public License version 2. (That was the version I used back then and
> of which I'm sure; I haven't fully investigated version 3 so I'd rather
> defer that.)
OK, given that other contributors already agreed to GPL2, too, I
drop my suggestion of GPL2 "or higher".
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