[Bf-committers] Can BGE be relicensed?

[Sinan Hassani]

But just to clarify.

It would need the BF to agree to offer such a license, NaN to agree, and 
all the Blender contributes since relicensing to GPL to agree to such a 
thing.

So relicensing Blender is possible, but it's way too complicated than 
relicensing parts of VLC, that's for sure.


Sinan

On 12-12-02 02:04 PM, Dan Eicher wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A second issue is that code ownership isn't solely that of the BF and
>> contributors - technically the original dual licensed code from when
>> blender went open source - the NaN shareholders still have some sort
>> of legal rights.  So any other licensing changes other the those
>> transformations allowed under the GPLv2 or the original Blender
>> license could be quite headache inducing.
>>
>> LetterRip
> I'm guessing The Community didn't purchase the cppyright to the code
> but merely paid to have it released as GPLv2 then?
>
> If that's the case then all these talks on re-licensing are mostly
> (totally) pointless...
>
> Dan
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