Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 30 05:55:10 UTC 2008
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
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