Re: Fwd: Possibility of dual-licensing to ease bringing into FreeBSD

[Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>]

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On Friday, 15 September 2023 16:11:44 CEST obiwac wrote:
> Would it be possible to
> dual-license batman-adv to GPL/BSD

This is not really likely. There is not a single entity which can re-license 
the code - instead there are nearly 120 authors recorded in the repository 
which have some saying over their contribution. There can be even more 
copyright holders which weren't recorded correctly (especially in the early 
days).

Akinobu Mita
Al Viro
Alexey Dobriyan
Alexey Fisher
Anders Roxell
Andrea Gelmini
Andrea Ghittino
Andreas Langer
Andreas Pape
Andrew Lunn
André Gaul
Andy Shevchenko
Antonio Quartulli
Arnd Bergmann
Ben Hutchings
Chris Lang
Christophe JAILLET
Colin Ian King
Cong Wang
Dan Carpenter
Daniel Seither
Daniele Furlan
Danny Kukawka
David Ahern
David Decotigny
David Howells
David S. Miller
Def
Denys Vlasenko
Ding Tianhong
Eric Dumazet
Eric W. Biederman
Felix Fietkau
Fengguang Wu
Florian Westphal
Gao Feng
Geliang Tang
George Spelvin
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Gustavo A. R. Silva
Himangi Saraogi
Jakub Kicinski
Jason A. Donenfeld
Javier Martinez Canillas
Jean Delvare
Jean Sacren
Jeremy Sowden
Jesper Juhl
Jiri Pirko
Joe Perches
Johannes Berg
Jonathan Corbet
Julia Lawall
Jussi Kivilinna
Kees Cook
Ken Helias
Kirill Smelkov
Krzysztof Kozlowski
Kyungrok Chung
Leon Romanovsky
Linus Lüssing
Linus Torvalds
Luc Van Oostenryck
Lucas De Marchi
Luis de Bethencourt
Marek Lindner
Markus Elfring
Markus Pargmann
Martin Hundebøll
Martin Weinelt
Masahiro Yamada
Mathieu Desnoyers
Matthias Schiffer
Michał Mirosław
Minghao Chi
Nicolas Dichtel
Nikolay Aleksandrov
Octavian Purdila
Pankaj Bharadiya
Patrick McHardy
Pau Koning
Paul E. McKenney
Paul Kot
Pavel Skripkin
Phil Sutter
Randy Dunlap
Rasmus Villemoes
Remi Pommarel
René Treffer
Ruben Wisniewski
Sasha Levin
Scott Raynel
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Shan Wei
Shaokun Zhang
Shigeru Yoshida
Simon Wunderlich
Stephen Hemminger
Steven Rostedt (Google)
Sven Eckelmann
Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Sylvestre Ledru
Taehee Yoo
Tejun Heo
Tetsuo Handa
Tobias Klauser
Tom Gundersen
Tracey Dent
Vasiliy Kulikov
Vladimir Oltean
Vladislav Efanov
Wilfried Klaebe
Xiyu Yang
Yajun Deng
Ying Xue
Yu Zhe
YueHaibing
Zheng Yongjun

And I don't want to start now any discussion about per country rules regarding 
copyright and copyrightable work. Just wanted to point out that it is not as 
simple.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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