[Collaboa] Something for the weekend - Announcement of Retrospectiva [Collaboa fork]

[Christoph Sturm]

On 12/2/06, Dimitrij Denissenko <contact at dvisionfactory.com> wrote:
> >
> > >>>/ I urge you to read Collaboa's license (http://
> > />>>/ svn.collaboa.org/svn/collaboa/trunk/MIT-LICENSE, applied to
> > />>>/ ActionSubversion as well), esp. the third paragraph, and act
> > />>>/ accordingly. That's a friendly hint, nothing more at this point.
> > />>>/
> > />>/ Sorry about that. I am rally lazy when it comes to administrative
> > />>/ stuff.
> > />>/ Please call my attention to any license violation or similar.
> > />/
> > />/ This looks very interesting, but most rails developers will be wary of
> > />/ your GPL license. I suggest MIT.  Also, I'm not sure whether you can
> > />/ re-license MIT as GPL.
> > /
> > Not without permission from the original copyright holder(s). And
> > certainly not by changing the copyright.
> >
> >
> > JS
> As far as I know, I COULD relicense an MIT license without permission
> from the original author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_licence).
> Because MIT can be relicensed is exactly the reason why I chose the
> GPLv2, to just stay more consistent with any Retrospectiva extension
> developments in the long run.

I am no lawyer, but here's my opinion on this:
you can sublicense the code, but you cant take away the rights that
the MIT license gives the users. So you can license your new stuff in
the gpl license, but the old collaboa stuff will always stay MIT
licensed, because thats the license that the copyright holder selected
for it.

So I think the cleanest solution would be to license retrospectiva
also on the MIT license.

-chris