From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 22:25:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0E11065675 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:25:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172408FC19 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5KMPNNW001689; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q5KMPMwn001686; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20120621001809.da9ce415.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <4FCF9333.70201@speakeasy.org> <402199FE-380B-41B6-866B-7D5D66C457D5@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20120619205225.21d6709f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20f61898ce668c96f8882981cf8e24f6@remailer.privacy.at> <4FE1AD27.8000704@gmail.com> <1340192731894-5720039.post@n5.nabble.com> <4FE1BD0E.5060300@pukruppa.de> <20120620224030.1a0dc3b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120621001809.da9ce415.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Antonio Olivares Subject: Re: Why Clang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:25:28 -0000 > You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You i don't talk that case, but if i am hired to write some part of program as an employer in software company. >> So - if authors of any project, no matter how numerous, will all >> without exception agree that they want to get rid of GPL, then - they >> always can turn it to BSD >> licenced ? am i right? > > A general consensus of the issuers of the license ("continuous > licensing") could maybe do that, I assume. Still there would > be the possibility to create a fork (common means in open source > when something needs to be changed that doesn't go well with > "mainstream"), and that fork could keep the old license. Now > there are two independent projects. that is fine. > > BUT - as everyone is free to obtain, modify and re-issue GPL > source code, I'm not sure such a consensus could be reached. by creating a BSD licenced fork - constructed from parts written by all developers that - as you said - have personal right to their code.