Re:Commons Clause
by icc97 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:41AM
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One of the earliest questions asked on Open Source SE is on 'How can a project be relicensed?' [0]
Edit: further down that rabbit hole, there's a comment on a linked Programmers SE question [1]:
> What we do is have a contributor's agreement that contributors sign, and it assigns joint copyright (so both our corporation and the contributor own the code). In that way, we still have the ability to re-license, but they still have all rights that they had. This is the same way that SharpDevelop works.
This seems a sensible (or at least an open) way to allow the opportunity for future re-licensing.
Edit: further down that rabbit hole, there's a comment on a linked Programmers SE question [1]:
> What we do is have a contributor's agreement that contributors sign, and it assigns joint copyright (so both our corporation and the contributor own the code). In that way, we still have the ability to re-license, but they still have all rights that they had. This is the same way that SharpDevelop works.
This seems a sensible (or at least an open) way to allow the opportunity for future re-licensing.
[0]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-a-...
[1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5532...