changing content licenses (OPL => CC BY SA)

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jun 25 16:03:34 UTC 2009


On 06/25/2009 11:49 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Tom "spot"
> Callaway<tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> So, we should just go ahead and get permission from all the contributors
>> (writers and translators) to relicense their works, and if anyone does
>> not give permission, we should remove/replace their contribution.
> 
> How does this work for defunct accounts? For example, I made a
> contribution and then disappeared - my email address doesn't work, for
> example.

We make every effort to track down that person, and if it is ultimately
impossible, we remove their contribution(s) from the "CC-BY-SA" licensed
version of the document(s).

~spot




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