Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Note that this only applies in the USA, not, for example, > in Germany, where such a thing is impossible. > Well, yes and no. It is impossible to transfer the moral rights, but since 2008 the right of exploitation of all uses known and unknown can be transferred exclusively, which amounts to the same thing. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Awk!" sed Grep. "A fscking python is perloining my Ruby; let me bash him with a Cshell! Vi didn't I mount it on a troff?" --Francis Turner ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
David Woolley dixit: > On 29/07/17 10:27, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: >> The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. >> I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright. > > You should get the copyright owner to assign copyright to you, as, Note that this only applies in the USA, not, for example, in Germany, where such a thing is impossible. bye, //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2 ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
On 29/07/17 10:27, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright. You should get the copyright owner to assign copyright to you, as, currently, no-one is able to enforce the licence except for non-trivial parts of the code contributed by third parties, given the current owner seems to have lost interest. If it is an important project, the FSF might also be willing to buy the copyright for a token amount (one cent or one dollar), but I think that would require that right in all contributions have been assigned to the original owner. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
On Saturday 29. July 2017 11.16, David Woolley wrote: > On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > > I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip > > What do you mean by the maintainer? The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright. > To the extent that you do not own the copyright in any particular file, > you can redistribute that file under the relevant version 3 licence. > > If you have accepted non-trivial changes without copyright being > assigned to you, or the right to re-licence, you do not fully own the > copyright in the affected files and cannot make an arbitrary change of > licence, but can still upgrade to version 3. My intention is to upgrade to GPL version 3, provided that is allowed. Sorry if that was unclear. My understanding is that this is allowed, but I wanted to check with this list that my understanding is correct. :-) -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip What do you mean by the maintainer? If you are the actual copyright owner, you can distribute it under any licence you like, as long as you continue to honour requests to supply the source code for versions you previously distributed. To the extent that you do not own the copyright in any particular file, you can redistribute that file under the relevant version 3 licence. If you have accepted non-trivial changes without copyright being assigned to you, or the right to re-licence, you do not fully own the copyright in the affected files and cannot make an arbitrary change of licence, but can still upgrade to version 3. The code licence is stated as follows: == * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. == Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms saying that one can use a later version. My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released under GPL version 3 and later? ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
My layman understanding is that that is exactly what it says. On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > Hi. > I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip > The code licence is stated as follows: > > == > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the > * License, or (at your option) any later version. > == > Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms > saying that one can use a later version. > > My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released > under GPL version 3 and later? > > -- > Johnny A. Solbu > web site, http://www.solbu.net > PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324 > > ___ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-5697354skype: henrik.ingoirc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/henrik-ingo/3/232/8a7 ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
[License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?
Hi. I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip The code licence is stated as follows: == * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. == Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms saying that one can use a later version. My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released under GPL version 3 and later? -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss