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From: | Anthony W. Youngman |
Subject: | Re: Overview of copyright issues |
Date: | Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:20:53 +0100 |
User-agent: | Turnpike/6.07-M (<ete6T1nyPTC2m1mvaMf+2W6ivy>) |
You can't simply go around and change licenses, unless you are the copyrightholder!But you are the copyright owner of the LilyPond code.
Copyright belongs to the person who wrote the code (sometimes). There is no ONE owner of lilypond - it is spread amongst many.
Indeed I personally MIGHT own some copyright in lilypond! There's a good argument I do, it's a grey area!
That's the paperwork that is needed: Every contributor, who has untilnow contributes as GPL v2only, needs to agree to change his/her contributions to GPL v2+. Unless you track down every substantial contributor (git helps inthat regard), LilyPond can't switch to GPL v2+.Why? Is there a GNU requirement? - My cursory reading of v3 did not find anything like that. Where does this idea come from?
It's nothing to do with GNU. It's the law. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - address@hidden
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