[Bf-committers] Can BGE be relicensed?

[Sinan Hassani]

>> In other words, the "purchase of
>> copyright" is part of the deal.
> You appear to misunderstand copyright law?
Sorry that should have said purchase of copyright permission.

>
> It does not assign copyright ownership to those who have received
> copys under the GPL.
>> So the original people that payed to
>> have Blender relicensed now have or own code that is licensed under the
>> GPL and they have copyright over that code.
> The code was released under the GPL, code licensing is not the same
> thing as code ownership.
Own is not the right word here, but rather they now have code licensed 
under the GPL, and what I meant above is that new contributors have 
copyright ownership over their code.


Sinan