Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:36:14AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> What if the main creators of the software prefer acknowledging substantial
> contributions with proper attribution and copyright notice in the file
> preambles? They do list different names in different files, and there are
> only few authors who do most of the development. They've kept a separate list
> of patch authors, but many patches may not be considered "substantial
> enough" to put a submitter onto that list. In my first reply in this thread
> I've pointed out that Petr is not credited for patches.

Determining whether a work is sufficiently substantial to be 
copyrightable is not straightforward. Don't try it without competent 
legal advice. If you haven't received competent legal advice, you've 
probably made a mistake at some point.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org