Hi, On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 12:56 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]> writes: > > > > Yes, clearly. > > > > There is one very simple way to make all these critics go away: > > relicense uutils to GPLv3. > > > > Until that happens those concerns are perfectly valid, and we've seen > > several popular projects become proprietary and do funny things with > > the license. > > > > Switching to GPLv3 would make all the concerns go away and focus the > > discussion to be purely technical. > > > > I don't think you can dismiss those concerns until then, they are > > completely possible. > > +1 > > That projects uses non-copyleft licenses on re-implementations of > important (strongly) copyleft projects like Gcc, GnuPG, CoreUtils, tells us > something about the FOSS ecosystem.
People can start a fork where the additional contributions are licensed under a copyleft license. Though I would recommend a GPLv2-compatible license to not lock out a large part of the ecosystem and cause more fragmentation. The GPLv3 practically pushes people to non-copyleft licenses to avoid license problems in the future... Ansgar
