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Disney goes for free software in which manner ?Disney goes for free software in which manner ?Posted Jun 20, 2002 13:56 UTC (Thu) by erat (guest, #21)In reply to: Disney goes for free software in which manner ? by copsewood Parent article: Disney goes for Linux There are two serious flaws in your proposal: 1) As someone else stated already, what entity would be designated to determine who is "oppressing" free software? Even if there are very specific criteria for determining who's in and who's out, there will still be enough rope to allow the RMSes of the world to hang those companies that they simply don't like. I can envision this ending Linux's wave of popularity quickly, as well as scaring off literally almost all of the corporate users. 2) A GPL 3, 4, 50, whatever could be created, but software that is covered by GPL 2.0 will remain covered by GPL 2.0 until the folks producing the software decide to change. If the GPL is changed to be more restrictive than it already is, lots of code covered under it will more likely than not fork, leaving the GPL 2.0'd version for the free software community and licensing the new fork differently. If you own the copyright, I believe you can do that. It's not nice, but I believe it can happen (look at SourceForge).
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