changing content licenses (OPL => CC BY SA)
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
bob at fedoraunity.org
Thu Jun 25 19:49:40 UTC 2009
----- "Karsten Wade" <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> My understanding when we did this last time was, "Since we are going
> to simultaneously get all of these people to sign the CLA, we now
> have
> a tool (hammer) that prevents us from having to ask permission if we
> need to relicense in the future." As such, it hadn't occurred to me
> until Spot specified that we might have to get individual approval or
> remove the contribution.
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure I recall having to remove wiki content, thank
> goodness. IIRC, everyone who had wiki edit rights signed the CLA.
> The one exception was an author who worked on a stand-alone guide
> (Jargon Buster), who did not want to relicense nor sign the CLA, and
> his content was removed.
>
As I remember it there were a couple other items that were removed by their authors before they gave up their respective wiki accounts.
-- Bob
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