Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:52:19 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:45:15PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:57:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > > Saying things like:
> > > 
> > > "and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged, 
> > > don't gain any copyright protection on the file or the proper parts of 
> > > it,"
> > > 
> > > is inaccurate and dangerous. It's entirely appropriate to indicate that 
> > > it's untrue.
> > 
> > I wrote that in the context of files giving credit to *some* people [*],
> > which could (!) be an indication that any _unknown_ changes, which other
> > people may have managed to get included in those files, likely have not
> > been considered substantial enough to qualify for copyright.
> 
> Which is a dangerous position to take. Don't say things like that.

I'd love to take advice from you, but with your overly brief comments
you're unconvincing. I don't think copyright law is as simple as to cover
it with one-line mails.

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