Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2006 12:46 PM
It's not a vote, changing the licence requires the consent of *every* copyright holder. Unless people have assigned their copyright to someone else, that means every contributor.
If someone refuses to give their consent, then the only way to relicence is to rip out everything they contributed. Ripping out everything that Linus has written would be impossible, so he effectively has a veto on a licence change.
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Re:Outvoted?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2006 12:46 PMIf someone refuses to give their consent, then the only way to relicence is to rip out everything they contributed. Ripping out everything that Linus has written would be impossible, so he effectively has a veto on a licence change.
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