Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:21:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:17:02PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > 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,
> 
> I don't think this is true.

Without proper attribution, e.g. in a commit message [of the merge done by
a _different_ person] or in the preamble or inline, without a contributor
explicitly requesting to be credited _anywhere at all_, how to keep track
of the individual copyright holders who actually do want to keep their
copyright related rights? How to distinguish from [patch] contributors,
who don't care and who don't request credits and a copyright notice to
be added to the file?

Anyway, you might want to talk to the Audacious developers as well as a
lawyer. It might boil down to the [patch] contributor having to explicitly
waive their rights when submitting their work to avoid a misunderstanding.
And that might be considered legal pedantry.

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