Mechanics of Contributing with a New License

[Alex Bligh]

--On 24 July 2005 10:33 +0200 Chris Zumbrunn <chris at czv.com> wrote:

> A contributor cannot relicense code covered under the OVPL. This is the
> case with any license. Only the copyright holder can relicense code.

Only the copyright holder can relicense the code (from a very technical
point of view), but someone to whom a perpertual worldwide non-exclusive
sublicenseable license is given (i.e. the ID under the OVPL) can
sublicense under any license, which achieves in practice the nearly
the same thing (even though they are not the copyright holder for
modifications). The difference (of course) is that the original
copyright holder can still license his work under any terms he wants
(subject of course to his reliance on licenses of any work he modified).

Alex