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> Yes, indeed. The submitter needs to sign over copyright. Otherwise you don't have the right to relicense their work under some other for-compensation license.
by the8472 10y ago
> Yes, indeed. The submitter needs to sign over copyright. Otherwise you don't have the right to relicense their work under some other for-compensation license.
Wouldn't it be possible to require patches to be supplied under CC-0, which would allow the maintainer to take the patch and incorporate it in the GPLed source?
- dbcurtis 10y agoCC0 is a disclaimer of copyright, so yes. The essential test you need to pass for dual licensing is "no one else has copyright in this work". Good clarifying question. IANAL