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

[Bruce Perens]

John,

Don't count on that. It is much more likely to be considered a compilation
with individual copyrights, because the rights conveyed in the license text
explicitly make it possible to create such a compilation and do not require
the legal mechanism of a joint work. We also have legal precedent that
there is consideration based on the author's recognition for *their *work.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:02 PM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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).
>
> --
> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
> Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy.  Dennett and Bennett are
> well-known.
> Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never cites
> Dennett.
> There is also one Dummett.  By their works shall ye know them.  However,
> just as
> no trinities have fourth persons (Zeppo Marx notwithstanding), Bummett is
> hardly
> known by his works.  Indeed, Bummett does not exist.  It is part of the
> function
> of this and other e-mail messages, therefore, to do what they can to
> create him.
>
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