On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <200909101742.10364.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold > Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> writes >> ... So we'll have the same problem again in some years... By then it will be >> even harder tracking down all contributors, who submitted a patch years >> ago... >> > Hopefully we won't. Hopefully contributors will use the "or later" > version. > > But the problem with *demanding* "or later" is that you are *forcing* > potential contributors to give the FSF carte blanche to relicence their > work. Why should I, having given long and careful thought to the licence > I want for my code, allow other people to change those terms without as > much as a "by your leave"? I'm not saying I agree with Linus, but he has > his reasons for licencing Linux as "v2 only", and I'm sure there'll be > people who think he has a valid point!
Sweet Mao, I actually agree with Anthony about something! :) Yeah, I've always been troubled by this. I think[1] that technically, if somebody assasinated enough FSF members, and/or bought a million FSF memberships or whatever... whatever would be required to replace the current board with their minions... they could release a GPLv4 that states "all your base are belong to us, and that source code can be used by SCO in any way they see fit". [1] I haven't looked into the actual mechanisms behind the "or later" clause, or the exact process by which the FSF chooses new board members. It would make an *awesome* webcomic, though... maybe I should so some research into this, find somebody to draw the thing, and create an *awesome* comic about valient open-source developers fighting against such a take-over of the FSF. I could write an *awesome* story for that comic. Hey, Valentin? You're not really busy these days, are you? And your little lilypond note icon is cute. Want to make a webcomic together? ;) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
