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You can dual-license it, if the new license is more restrictive than the
old one. That way, no rights are lost.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grzegorz Adam
> Hankiewicz
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:32 PM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [AD] giftware license
>
> On 2004-09-22, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...] Or maybe they don't - then at least we know that the license
> > is not officially open source compatible :P
>
> Interestingly, how do you change the license of something which
> is not owned by a single person/entity? You ask everybody who
> contributed to it and get it signed on paper. Now, does somebody here
> remember the dodgy way Shawn licensed Allegro under giftware terms?
> From a strictly legal point of view I would say parts of Allegro
> still might be under swapware license. For a reference read the
> full page at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8450528
>
> Haha, I can't belive my stupid answer too that.
>
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