Talk:Licenses: Difference between revisions

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 It's not sourceforge nerds you need here, it's people from NGOs and charities and churches and institutes that study [[fair trade]], [[safe trade]], [[ethical investing]] and [[moral purchasing]] (especially).  Nerds want certainty, but those other groups want peace and justice.  Only you can decide who to satisfy. - trolls, eternal.
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-Ok... this is brutal copy-paste from work copyrighted by OSDN, but I guess I can count on this being "fair use"
-'''Changing licenses (from terms of use @ sf.net)''
+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.
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-You may select a different Open Source license for your project at a later date, so long as you have the legal capability to do so, your file release clearly relates this change, and your Trove categorization is updated appropriately. It should be noted that license changes are not retroactive (i.e. you may not change the licensing terms of materials you have already released under one Open Source license).
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