Re: [GNUnet-developers] copyright assignment

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> skribis:

> The reason is that situations continue to pop up where the ability to
> dual-license some code would be helpful for the project (similar to how
> we added GPL+eCos to GNU libmicrohttpd in the past).  If we had the
> copyright with GNUnet e.V., then at least we had a relatively small
> group (the annually elected "Vorstand") representing the developers in a
> position of making decisions about dual-licensing.

I’m guessing the second license would necessarily be more permissive
than the GPL, no?  Wouldn’t this amount to effectively relicensing
everything under a permissive license?

Ludo’.