Fwd: Implications for switching licenses mid-stream

Cinly Ooi cinly.ooi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 14:56:07 UTC 2008


[Thanks to Chris for reminding me that reply button does not work correctly
to reply to list]

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From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris at czv.com>
Date: 24 Apr 2008 13:36
Subject: Re: Implications for switching licenses mid-stream
To: cooi at iee.org


On Apr 24, 2008, at 14:03 , Cinly Ooi wrote:

 On 24/04/2008, Chris Zumbrunn <chris at czv.com> wrote:
> >
> > In this context, the "absence of a tort" means that the project leader
> > isn't causing injury to the contributor. If you read more into it than that,
> > then I believe we do indeed disagree.
> >
> > In the absense of injury, the contributor has no grounds to sue. But the
> > project leader would be on thin ice.
> >
>
> In practice, this means damaging relationship with the contributor.
>
> It might also be contrary to ethics.
>

Yes, I agree.

Btw, so is killing and eating animals or enslaving them to drink their milk
;-)

Cinly, assuming you wanted your message to go to the list, you'll have to
resend it, because you only sent it to me. Unfortunately the license-discuss
list doesn't automatically set the Reply-To headers appropriately.

Chris



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Best Regards,
Cinly
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