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Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian
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Graham Percival |
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Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:35:14 +0100 |
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, Reinhold
> Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes
>> ... So we'll have the same problem again in some years... By then it will be
>> even harder tracking down all contributors, who submitted a patch years
>> ago...
>>
> Hopefully we won't. Hopefully contributors will use the "or later"
> version.
>
> But the problem with *demanding* "or later" is that you are *forcing*
> potential contributors to give the FSF carte blanche to relicence their
> work. Why should I, having given long and careful thought to the licence
> I want for my code, allow other people to change those terms without as
> much as a "by your leave"? I'm not saying I agree with Linus, but he has
> his reasons for licencing Linux as "v2 only", and I'm sure there'll be
> people who think he has a valid point!
Sweet Mao, I actually agree with Anthony about something! :)
Yeah, I've always been troubled by this. I think[1] that
technically, if somebody assasinated enough FSF members, and/or
bought a million FSF memberships or whatever... whatever would be
required to replace the current board with their minions... they
could release a GPLv4 that states "all your base are belong to us,
and that source code can be used by SCO in any way they see fit".
[1] I haven't looked into the actual mechanisms behind the "or
later" clause, or the exact process by which the FSF chooses new
board members. It would make an *awesome* webcomic, though...
maybe I should so some research into this, find somebody to draw
the thing, and create an *awesome* comic about valient open-source
developers fighting against such a take-over of the FSF. I could
write an *awesome* story for that comic.
Hey, Valentin? You're not really busy these days, are you? And
your little lilypond note icon is cute. Want to make a webcomic
together? ;)
Cheers,
- Graham
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, (continued)
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Don Armstrong, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/10
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Graham Percival, 2009/09/11
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/11
- Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Trevor Daniels, 2009/09/11
Re: Overview of copyright issues, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10