Re: Ask contributors a permission to relicense

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On 15/01/12 20:07, Francesco Poli wrote:
>> Please note that Andrei found it “a bit harsh” [1] (well, it was
>> about
>>> copyright reassignment, since we will only ask for a
>>> relicensing permission, maybe his remark won't stand) if we
>>> remove commit access to people who won't give their agreement.
>>> Hopefully, none of us will really disagree, and we'll only
>>> temporarily remove commit access to temporarily unavailable
>>> contributors.
> As it should already be clear from my previous comments, I think
> that requiring blanket re-licensing permission from contributors as
> a prerequisite for accepting contributions to an activity of the
> Debian Project would be a *very bad* precedent.
> 
> I think that such a strategy, if adopted, would alienate a number
> of existing or future potential contributors.

I know I'm probably saying the same as Hugo in a different way, but
what about assigning the copyright, and accepting as payment an
agreement that the work will only be relicenced within certain
guidelines, eg saying that it must meet the 2012 DFSG for example.

Should the project then use the copyright to unacceptably relicence
the work, they are in breach of contract, the copyright transfer can
be voided, and the relicence becomes a copyright violation.

That's the way the FSF do their copyright assigns, auiu.

Cheers,
Wol
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