On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:50, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense >> all >> of the contributions it has received. > > > As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source > licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license > agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under any > license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions.
Yeah... that is kind of a disadvantage for when they may choose to upgrade or modify their licensing. Apache's CLA process gives us flexibility in altering our license. It is not a copyright assignment (whew!), so we don't have total flexibility. But we have enough... :-) Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
