[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:18 AM Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org>
wrote:

Someone who contributes to a little project probably maintained by no
> more than a single programmer will not care to sign a contributor
> license agreement if he applies changes to the software. The same
> applies in a more far-ranging form to distributors. I would not be able
> to use distributor´s fixes unless they would do me the favour to sign
> the CLA.
>

As the maintainer of a few little projects, I take it that when someone
sends
me a patch their intention is to become a joint author of the work and that
the contribution is licensed with the same license as the work originally
had.
As a joint author, I can unilaterally change the license as long as I am
willing to be
responsible to my co-authors for their share of the profits (which are zero
in any case).

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