Andrew Gray wrote:
On 14/01/07, luke brandt shojokid@gmail.com wrote:
In theory your point seems to have merit, but I wonder what would happen in practice if we were to change the license, assuming a new license has the same 'freedom' objective but is better suited to our purpose. Assume a contributor were to take legal action against us....presumably they would have been harmed in some way...how exactly?
Remember the "contributor" here doesn't just have some intangible vague sense of "participation"; they have a concrete interest in that they own a slice of the intellectual property of the work. We would have taken their property without their consent and offered it to the world, for the taking, on conditions that are clearly not the same as those they had originally given.
If that isn't illegal, it damn well ought to be.
I'm darned sure some activist judges will agree with you :) You'll make a fine advocate
Best luke