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Project Harmony opens website (The H)Project Harmony opens website (The H)Posted Apr 8, 2011 16:37 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: Project Harmony opens website (The H) by JoeBuck Parent article: Project Harmony opens website (The H)
The GNU copyright contributions are still harmful. They've caused forks and driven away potential contributors. The kernel has no copyright agreements but it's been more useful in enforcing the GPL. GCC could still be relicensed by using the GPLv2+ license. If you need to change the license entirely, that's maybe trickier, but lots of projects have relicensed by asking individual contributors. Btw, the people who died can't sue you.
So not needed and harmful is probably an accurate description.
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Project Harmony opens website (The H) Posted Apr 8, 2011 18:27 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
slight clarification
the people who died can't sue you, but their heirs can.
Project Harmony opens website (The H) Posted Apr 8, 2011 22:49 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Yes, for anything with commercial value, if anything heirs are more likely to sue, and it's not safe to assume that they won't. Anyone out there who owns copyright in important FLOSS software, please include what you want to happen to that software on your death in your will. We've had a number of important contributor die recently, you aren't immortal.
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