On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: >> Doesn't the CLA allow us to re-license contributions that came in from >> start to finish by people who have signed the CLA? > > I'm fairly certain only the copyright holder can license and re-license. > The CLA definitely does not assign copyright, only copyright license. > Now, the copyright license _could_ grant rights to re-license, but this > one doesn't AFAIK. > Correct. Only the owner can relicense or allow others to relicense... one of the reasons for the old FSF sign over all your rights to us. > AFAICT, the CLA gives us the rights to continue using, modifying, and > distributing the various contributions to the Websites codebase. But if > we want to license it so it is clear for others down the road, we'll > likely need to approach all copyright holders to get permission. We had > to do that when we moved documentation to the OPL from the GNU FDL. We > had to drop parts of one (defunct) guide because the author did not > agree to the re-licensing. > The second way is to rewrite what was written. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
