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Eric Raymond: Licensing How to (2002)
- xoa 7y agoI was unable to find any more recent or officially OSI accepted edition, yet I still found the parts about relicensing very interesting given that the "common wisdom" that a open source work without copyright assignment cannot be relicensed without consent of every contributor remains very prevalent. This was linked to from the discussion on the now quite old "could Linux be relicensed under the GPLv3" question, and I was surprised that I hadn't come across it before or even saw it discussed before. The parts about registered vs unregistered copyright make total sense as well, of course in law you need standing to have any argument, and without statutory damages the bar to show actual losses is very high in practice. Does anyone know if there has been any subsequent case law that suggested something different since when this was written?