[License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Sat Jul 29 15:22:03 UTC 2017


David Woolley dixit:

> On 29/07/17 10:27, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
>> The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005.
>> I am continuing the development, but do not have the copyright.
>
> You should get the copyright owner to assign copyright to you, as, 

Note that this only applies in the USA, not, for example,
in Germany, where such a thing is impossible.

bye,
//mirabilos
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