[License-discuss] Can a contributor take back open source code ? - Yes, if he has not signed over the copyright.

2019-05-12 Thread informator
Hello Kevin. but there is no path which would force the project to do so. This is incorrect. If the contributions were legitimately provided under an OSI-approved (or similar) license, the license cannot be terminated for convenience. This is also incorrect. Free non-exclusive licenses can be

To: Andrew Sampson: Rights granted by the GPL _can_ be "retroactively" retracted. Yes I am a lawyer

2019-05-07 Thread informator
Dear Andrew Sampson; The proclamations given in the thread: github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/issues/312 are incorrect. If the non-exclusive licensee did not pay the copyright holder consideration for receipt of the permissions given regarding the copyrighted work, the copyright holder can