On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:34:20 +1000 David Murn <da...@incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 20:10 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > > > I am sure there are going to be a few cases where difficult > > decisions are going to have to be made. We will not have been the > > only open source project to have had to make these sorts of > > decisions. > > Out of interest Grant, what other large-scale open source projects > have changed their licence the way that OSM has? In fact, changed > their licence full-stop..? > > David > OpenOffice.org has had a major fork just recently. The LibreOffice fork has chosen different licensing arrangements, including the contributors retaining their own copyright. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/ and interestingly this assessment of how LibreOffice is going http://webmink.com/2011/02/11/is-libreoffice-open-by-rule/ We can also note how the new fork is handling their compound licensing issue. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
