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FOSDEM: Richard Fontana on copyleft-next

FOSDEM: Richard Fontana on copyleft-next

Posted Feb 15, 2013 21:19 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: FOSDEM: Richard Fontana on copyleft-next by josh
Parent article: FOSDEM: Richard Fontana on copyleft-next

To sell permissively licensed versions of the same code require you to be the sole copyright holder. So either you require copyright assignment or you refuse all external contributions, both alternatives being antisocial.


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FOSDEM: Richard Fontana on copyleft-next

Posted Feb 17, 2013 12:31 UTC (Sun) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

Or that you get a license agreement from contributors explicitly allowing you to sell permissively licensed versions of the same code.

The Chromium CLA does that, for example:
http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html

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