On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:25:13PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 13:52:37 +0200: > > The backports simply fall under the terms of the old licence when > > they get released. But then again, the project owns copyright to > > these changes in the first place :) > > The project does not own the copyright to an individual patch that's > backported to an older release branch. (Neither ICLA transfers > copyright.)
Well, "the project" as in "the sum of its contributors, where each owns a subset of the copyright on the collective work" :) I'll now stop splitting hairs.
