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On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:50:56PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 16:46:57 +0200 |
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> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@×××××××××.ch> wrote: |
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> > With the original statement "GPL-2" alone, you have to take contact |
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> > and get an authorisation to move from each single programmer that |
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> > contributed code into the project. |
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> No, you have to get permission of the copyright holders. Which, in this |
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> case, is the Foundation. |
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Could you back that up, please? I was looking for something to confirm or |
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deny this myself, but didn't find anything. |
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I did, however, find |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/blog/articles/20050506-foundation/> |
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Quoting: |
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"Note that the Foundation would never change the license used for the |
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code or documentation, if that could be set in stone that would be |
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even better." |
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Is this still relevant? |
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