Re: Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Perhaps there are places who want to prevent better versions than their 
> own from ever being available and use this to justify the GPL 
> restrictions on combinations with other components.  From a user's 
> perspective, though, this is just as harmful as any other 
> anti-competitive ploy to limit choices.  And unfortunately, even if the 
> business reasons to maintain the restrictions on a particular product go 
> away, the restrictions, once applied, never do.

That's factually incorrect. Relicensing, dual or even tri licensing 
happens all the time.

Rahul