Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 30 21:23:44 UTC 2008
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
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