Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: > ***Anyone*** is free to take software licensed under the AFL and > re-license it under any license, including licenses not containing the > Mutual Defense provision ["to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, > perform, distribute and/or sell copies of the Original Work and > derivative works thereof,..."]. In fact, the AFL permits anyone to > freely relicense their derivative work software under the GPL.
Do WHUT???? The powers granted by the AFL certainly don't include, at least not explicitly, the power to relicense. It is the general understanding of the community that relicensing by anyone other than the copyright owner is not allowed; if it were, what good would the GPL be, or the Mutual Defense provision? The tortfeasor would simply claim that he had relicensed all your code under the MIT/X license. (He might need to use a dummy corporation.) No, if you want people using the AFL to be able to relicense the code, you need (as a practical matter if not a matter of law) to say so loud and clear, and one has to wonder what good the Mutual Defense provision is at all. > So what's your problem? Given *that* provision, which is tantamount to licensing under every license existing or to be created later, RMS can't possibly have a problem. The rest of us might, however. -- Do what you will, John Cowan this Life's a Fiction [EMAIL PROTECTED] And is made up of http://www.reutershealth.com Contradiction. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3