Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

[Dave P]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:56:31AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
>
> > No licence is set in stone (as Steve Hall remarked to me on the day
> > before I left for the US show) and you can always change it later if it
> > proves not to work.
>
> you can't. Once other people contributed you need permission from
> every single contributor to change the license and this can prove
> quite tricky. 1000 times trickier than fixing the original license.

This is incorrect. The current license states that once contributed, code
cannot be withdrawn, and that the contributor has surrendered their
copyright claim to TT. Therefore, only TT needs to consent to a license
change.

If you think this is bad, well, you surrender the same control under the
GPL.

HTH

Dave