Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>
>>> It's possible, but rare for project that has been under the GPL for 
>>> any length of time. Since there is no requirement to track the 
>>> copyright ownership of contributers there is generally no way to get 
>>> permission from all of them for a change.  Of course a dual license 
>>> could be applied from the start with one being less restrictive like 
>>> perl's to eliminate that problem.
>>
>> Such dual licensing would be useless.
> 
> How has it harmed perl to not force it's users to worry, as this endless 
> thread has, about whether or not some component that it links is too 
> free or not free enough?

It has instead made them worry about the nuances of the artistic license 
which is far from a clear one.

Rahul