Re: relicensing dual-licensed works to single license.

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Quoting Mark Rafn (dagon@dagon.net):

> Here's a thought: Dual-licensed works can generally be forked to be under
> either license. Doesn't this mean that the maintainer (or any distributor)  
> of a "GPLv2 or any later version" work could unilaterally re-release it
> under pure GPLv2 without consulting any contributors?

I think so:  He could then use that as the basis (if I understand
correctly) for a pure GPLv2 fork.  Other people, encountering that but
preferring a code instance under "GPLv2 or any later version" would need
to seek out an upstream version and eschew his additions.

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