2009/4/27 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:12:44 AM Pacific
Daylight Time,
saintonge(a)telus.net writes:
> Yes, and, absent any agreement to the contrary,
any one of those same
> authors may grant a free licence.>>
I'm very suspicious of this claim.
If I and seven other own a piece of property, I alone cannot sell it to a
prospective buyer. The same would hold of copyright. Although each owner
has a copyright, a single owner cannot grant away the entire right to a third
party.
It also doesn't sound right from the practices for free software -
where relicensing is a massive pain in the backside because of the
need to get agreement from all contributors. Hence the "or later"
language recommended for the GPL - and the GFDL, hence a mere vote on
relicensing being possible.
- d.