[License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

[Mike Milinkovich]

> > Well, I think that many would argue that such a work is a collective,
> > rather than a joint work. In fact, it seems to me that most of the
> > large collaborative communities are running under that assumption.
> 
> A collective work is defined as "a work, such as a periodical issue,
anthology, or
> encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate
and
> independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole."
Now
> maybe you could claim that an individual file constitutes a separate and
> independent work.  But a patch?
> I doubt it.

So you are asserting that by getting a single patch accepted into the Linux
kernel that I can, under US copyright law, re-license the entire work? As
long as I share any proceeds equally with all other copyright holders of
course.