[foundation-board] CKAN licence?

[Jordan S Hatcher]

On 26 Aug 2011, at 18:00, Ben Laurie wrote:

>> We may be limited in license choice because AFAIK we do not use contributors agreements for contributions that would allow us to migrate to a new license.  That means that OKF is just another licensee and not the copyright licensor with the ability to chose another license.
> 
> This seems like a problem that needs fixing...

Not sure I agree.  Wikipedia and many, many open source projects operate on a model that doesn't involve assignment or contributors agreements to the central organisation.  Being constrained from unilaterally changing the project license is usually seen as a feature and not a bug by participants in a project.

Happy to look at this further as we evolve our thinking here.

Thanks

Jordan

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