Am Montag, 16. Juli 2007 10:52:43 schrieb Murray Cumming: > > IANAL, but AFAIK this is not true. You can *never* change the license at > > all without consent from the authors. It may be that an author wants his > > code to be available under "version 2.1 or later", not under v3. :-( > > If you've given consent for your code to be released under "version 2.1 > or later" then you've given your consent for someone to release it under > version 3, 4, 5, etc. The original copyright holders are free to > continue to release their original code under version 2.1. This is well > accepted.
..and does only make sense. So what I wrote above ("change the license") only applies to adding/removing clauses (or changing the whole license, which is obvious). I should have kept my mouth shut. > > But IANAL, so take this as another of these non-authoritative > > contributions to a license discussion thread.. ;-/ (FWIW, I repeatedly > > read the above on the kde-core-devel list.) > > Which doesn't make it correct. ..the error is most certainly on my side, since there was *not* a discussion about a "GPL2 or later" vs. "GPL3" change. Sorry. Ciao, / / /--/ / / ANS _______________________________________________ libsigc-list mailing list libsigc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libsigc-list