[PD] [expr] license issue (update)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: i go bananas <hard.off at gmail.com>; PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [expr] license issue (update)
> 
> Le 2011-12-03 à 09:35:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> 
>>  (You also need to contact devs who added functionality and fixed any bugs 
> in the expr code.)
> 
> Those depend on whether those people agreed, explicitly or implicitly, to give 
> up their copyright.
> 
> I don't think anyone claims copyright on correcting a small typo, for 
> example.
> 
> Marvin said something about implicitly giving up copyright, in the previous big 
> thread about licenses (in sep+oct).

Well, one can either contact everyone who has ever contributed to the code and get an 
explicit "ok", or one can pay a lawyer to explain whether what a non-lawyer wrote on a 
list back in sep-oct actually matches up with the law.

-Jonathan

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