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Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian


From: Joseph Wakeling
Subject: Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:12:59 +0200
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Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Because they are not allowed by copyright law. They cannot change the license 
> if the file is only "mostly" their work. They can only change the license if 
> the file is SOLELY their work.

Well, technically they can release their bit of the file under their own
license, as long as it is compatible with the original.  What they can't
do is unilaterally rewrite the license for the whole file (see the whole
mess last year when some guy working on the Linux kernel rewrote the
licensing notice for a file copied from the BSD kernel).

Having a 'one license per file' rule just makes things simpler, is all.




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