[gobolinux-devel] Licensing

[Paul Gideon Dann]

Isaac Dupree wrote:
> advantage of "copyleft" license like GPL is that contributors who
> contribute their changes *must* be releasing them under GPL so we don't
> need to worry/ask about whether they agreed to the license (I think?)
>    
Yes, I think contributing a patch kind of implies that they're releasing 
it under GPL if the main work is GPL, or ISC if the main work is ISC.  I 
don't think copyleft has any bearing on this.  However, it seems to me 
that the problem being discussed is more to do with *changing* the 
licence.  Because the author of any original work automatically owns the 
copyright (unless he explicitly assigns it to someone else), they need 
to give concent if the licence is to be changed.

Paul Gideon Dann