Re: [GNUnet-developers] copyright assignment

[Christian Grothoff]

On 12/23/2015 01:34 PM, LRN wrote:
> I'm still not sure how this stands legally (IANAL, by the way) - is there
> such thing as a "shared right to re-license"? I assume you've had some
> legal advice in this regard.

Well, basically some variant of such a shared right to re-license is
what the P=P people are asking us for (see:
https://gnunet.org/gnunetev2015), and while IANAL it seems perfectly
legal, starting with the basic "freedom of contract" concept.

> And given that (as far as you've told us) this is not the usual copyright
> assignment (as practiced by, say, FSF), how does it relate to other
> copyright-assignment-ish things? Such as copyright enforcement (can "GNUnet
> e.V." go after copyright infringers? Does it intend to?).

Well, I guess it would put us into a better position to go after anyone
infringing on the copyright, but that is not at all the *intention*
behind my request. We also have no indications that there have been
GPL-violations of the GNUnet code so far, and there are also no
intentions by any of the parties involved to create non-free software or
to abandon the GPLv3+. The only point is really that the need to dual-
(or I guess multi-) license keeps coming up from time to time, and I
think we should have a simple process to enable ethical re-use of the
code base.

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