It is a global issue.
Many of the projects I contribute to require me (or anyone) to sign a
special document which deals with the issue and TL;DR says you give
(or share) all the needed rights to (or with) the project owners.
Example:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mca/
So AFAIK anyone _can_ license their code as they wish.
It is up to the project owners / maintainers to not allow badly
licensed code to their projects.
Annoying, but seems to be the only way.
--
Michal Schorm
Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:43 PM Germano Massullo
<germano.massullo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Italian identity card middleware for Linux cannot be packaged for Fedora because a
developer assigned an "all rights reserved" licence to his code.
In the ticket [1] where I raised this problem, some developers of the project said that
they will investigate to find out if the lines of code of the "wrong" license
maybe erased.
My personal opinion is that only THE author must be the one allowed to change the licence
of his own code, not another person.
Is that correct?
Best regards
[1]:
https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware-linux/issues/16
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