Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 21:20:33 UTC 2008
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?
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Les Mikesell
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