Re: [License-discuss] Special rights granted by open-source licenses

2019-01-09 Thread Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock
To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: [License-discuss] Special rights granted by open-source licenses [-license-review] [+license-discuss] On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:14 PM Brendan Hickey mailto:brendan.m.hic...@gmail.com>> wrote: As for the impossibly of relicensing FOSS code u

[License-discuss] Special rights granted by open-source licenses

2019-01-08 Thread John Cowan
[-license-review] [+license-discuss] On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:14 PM Brendan Hickey wrote: Controling forks and privileging certain authors is irreconcilably at odds > with the OSD (and free software.) . > I agree that the right to fork is part of every open-source license. But a license that a