[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2011/2/16 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This re-licensing seems even more legally complex than ours (although
>> uncontroversial).
>
> How can they relicense without explicit permission from each
> contributor, or an update clause in the licence?
>

Well - if their terms of use said that the all contributors transfer
the copyrights to Canonical Ltd. - the company can licence such the
content as it wishes and in fact E-mails send to their contributors is
just a matter of their goodwill to be moral toward them.



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