[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Open Source Project kafuffle...

[James Milligan]

On 10 Aug 2009, at 08:39, Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:34:02AM +0100, James Milligan wrote:
>> He's now decided not to charge me, as I'll be forking out for new
>> domains and hosting anyway (well not hosting but that's another  
>> story)
>>
>> The last email I sent was discussing the license so I'm waiting for a
>> reply on that one. I'm keen to relicense it asap -as we're not all
>> lawyers you probably won't want to comment but if I was to relicense
>> it all from the off, would that be it as far as we're concerned? He
>> has effectively said that I'm in control now, so it's kind of all up
>> to me how I proceed but I wouldn't mind some general advice on the
>> implications of relicensing a non-open source project -if there's a
>> page on the Internet then I'd be most welcome! I'll also email the  
>> fsf
>> in the meantime.
>>
>
> Good to hear, if everything goes to plan i'd suggest hosting the  
> actual
> code for the project on one of the numerous project hosting services
> (launchpad, sourceforge, etc.) and hopefully avoid this type of issue
> for the project in the future.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Williams
> w: http://tensixtyone.com/
> e: andy at tensixtyone.com

Sure - this is the type of thing I'll be looking into this week  
hopefully.

In terms of licenses, as it is software, would CC licenses still be  
valid?

If this is one of those small matches that turns into a flame war I  
apologise! I don't know how strongly you guys feel about this stuff :-)

James