SMF License to BSD

[Nerves]

Hi, I was wondering how could have SMF gone BSD, you're accepting patches from outsiders right? So how come you can now distribute the work with BSD? Did Simple Machines obtain rights over these pieces of codes everytime someone submitted a patch in version 1?

[Joshua Dickerson]

Nerves,

That is an excellent question. Simple Machines obtained the rights to SMF from Simple Machines LLC. Contributor license agreements (CLA) were signed by contributors during the transition. Following that, we released the new version of SMF (2.0) under the BSD license.

Thanks for the interest in free open source software.