[jll29]

The whole basis of licensing law is everything is forbidden unless you have a written license permitting it from the copyright owner.

This is contrary to most (all?) other parts of the law where everything is allowed that isn't forbidden.

So it's the right of authors to ignore email requests to discuss a re-publication if they so wish.

[BrenBarn]

It is, but I think what the comment you're replying to is saying is that the world might be better if things didn't work that way.

[ozim]

Given experience with OSS contributors burnouts we can see how world would not be better.