[Web Comm] GNU FDL -> CC & Mail to Wiki contributors

Tyler Mitchell tylermitchell at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 22 14:19:58 EDT 2006


On 22-Jun-06, at 11:10 AM, Jason Birch wrote:
> I do have a question though:  Is it ethical/legal to arbitrarily  
> change
> a license without first gaining the acceptance of the contributors who
> submitted under a different license?  If you need the agreement of all
> code-contributors to change the license for a project, does this not
> also apply to a collaborative work of non-code?

I think that's why Arnulf started the discussion today :)  To email  
out to all contributors to explain it and get any feedback/issues  
with it.

Tyler




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