Frankly, this is one of the biggest arguments in favor of assigning
copyright to some single entity for all contributions to a project. It's
what allows multi-licensing of an entire codebase. IHNSHO, anyone
running a large OpenSource project should /always/ insist on copyright
assignment. *Who* that copyright is assigned to is another matter
entirely, but it should always happen. Otherwise, you're stuck.
The FSF does it, the Apache Foundation, Mozilla project, and
OpenSolaris, not to mention the OpenJDK project.
-Erik
On 6/6/2010 10:55 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Andrew Greimann wrote:
Out of curiousity, is it possible to convert the GPL-licensed GNOME on
OpenSolaris to the CDDL or MIT licenses?
You would have to get every person& corporation owning copyright in every GNOME
module to agree to that, the odds of which are staggeringly high against you,
especially as there would be no arguable benefit to it.
Or, can someone install the Fluxbox environment onto OpenSolaris?
Sure, download the source and build it. Or check the usual packaging sites to
see if someone has already done that and decided to share it.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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