[oe] Question about automake licensing in recipe

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 21:38 +0930, Graham Gower wrote:
> Basically, automake have to contact all their contributors to allow
> their GPLv2 code to be distributed under GPLv3. Or they have to pull
> the GPLv3 code out.

If automake has followed the usual GNU conventions then all the
contributors will have assigned copyright of their code to the FSF
anyway.  In that case, the FSF can (being the copyright holder)
unilaterally decide what licence it should be distributed under.

If they haven't done that then, yeah, they would probably need the
permission of the original authors to change the licensing.

p.