changing content licenses (OPL => CC BY SA)

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Thu Jun 25 19:44:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:37:46AM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> 
> How do we make this relicensing work? I.e., if contributor X agreed that
> their content could be used under the OPL, how is it that we can just
> take that content and distribute it under a different license? I don't
> remember if the CLA has any wording on this. 

My understanding when we did this last time was, "Since we are going
to simultaneously get all of these people to sign the CLA, we now have
a tool (hammer) that prevents us from having to ask permission if we
need to relicense in the future."  As such, it hadn't occurred to me
until Spot specified that we might have to get individual approval or
remove the contribution.

> (Obviously the intention of
> the licenses is very similar, but nonetheless it seems like a murky
> situation. We did have someone withdraw from Fedora and take their toys
> with them when we last made a license change on the the wiki, IIRC).

Hmm, I'm not sure I recall having to remove wiki content, thank
goodness.  IIRC, everyone who had wiki edit rights signed the CLA.
The one exception was an author who worked on a stand-alone guide
(Jargon Buster), who did not want to relicense nor sign the CLA, and
his content was removed.

- Karsten
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