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Re: [Auth]Freport Update
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David Sugar |
Subject: |
Re: [Auth]Freport Update |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:33:25 -0500 (EST) |
True :). I was making a point about trusting third parties, though, not
about the strength of free software :).
On 15 Mar 2002, Mike Warren wrote:
> David Sugar <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Consider this, the FSF holds copyright on many free software packages
> > exclusivily. They could, on their own, at any time, choose to change
> > these packages to a proprietary license and have the full support of
> > the law in doing so.
>
> Luckily, all the free software packages the FSF holds copyrights for
> are licensed under the GPL; if the FSF did what you suggest above, all
> the projects could (and likely would) immediately fork. All the code
> up until the license change would remain free.
>
>
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, (continued)
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Mike Warren, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Hans Zandbelt, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, John, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Hans Zandbelt, 2002/03/16
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, John, 2002/03/16
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Hans Zandbelt, 2002/03/16
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, David Sugar, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Mike Warren, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update,
David Sugar <=
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Mike Warren, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, David Sugar, 2002/03/15
- Re: [Auth]Freport Update, Albert Scherbinsky, 2002/03/15
Re: [Auth]Freport Update, John, 2002/03/15