Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Jun 30 21:31:08 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:20 -0500, 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?
Heh, this discussion is actually useless too.
You dislike the GPL, fine, I think everybody understood that. Now you
have 2 options: come to terms with it, or not.
In either case I'd suggest you express your frustrations about licenses
on some other list, not on a development list.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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