Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Howells wrote: >> I do wonder if it'd be possible to get IBM to dual licence OpenAFS >> (IPL/GPL).
> At this point it is not just IBM. There have been a large number of > contributions to OpenAFS over the last six years and not all of those > contributions have even been under the IPL. In order to dual license we > would need to get approval from every contributor as well as have those > who were unwilling to license their contribution under the IPL to do so. > Organizations that preferred the MIT or BSD licenses have reasonable > justification for doing so. BSD- or MIT-licensed code should co-exist with the GPL just as easily as with the IPL, provided it's not the four-clause BSD license. (Not that this changes the larger point. Relicensing would be very difficult even if IBM were willing to make the first step.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
