Talk:Licenses: Difference between revisions
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One can change the license of a project later on (if it's legally possible for the license in question), but the source code released before the change will stay under the previous license. | One can change the license of a project later on (if it's legally possible for the license in question), but the source code released before the change will stay under the previous license. | ||
:Of course, but then there's a risk of competing with improvements to that source code that stay in the old license regime, maybe bad copy problems. There is lots of rightful social pressure against such changes as it splits community. Also "if it's legally possible for the license in question" is critical, as it constrains one to using licenses that actually allow such changes. Even so many are limited, like, GPL allows for successor versions of the GPL but doesn't even make it clear how to shift GPL material to LGPL. | |||
:For all these reasons we may be better off just changing the "Please note that..." to somehing like: | |||
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Please note that all contributions to the Consumerium Wiki are considered to be donated without obligation to the [[Consumerim Governance Organization]] with all rights and releases. These will be republished immediately in accord with best practices of materials under the GNU Free Documentation License, at the same URL as the material you chose to edit, within limits of our editorial and governance judgement. You are an equal participant in such judgement except for core questions which require specific legal and logistical and linguistic skill, where some expert judgement may guide the CGO in determining how best to factor and license contributions. In that case you have input into which experts to trust, again via the CGO. Regarding your specific contribution at this moment: | |||
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