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FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcyFSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcyPosted Jul 30, 2012 16:58 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy by Cyberax Parent article: FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy
actually, if they just include one patch that's GPL 2/3 then the result can only be distributed under those licenses.
Yes, $LARGE_CORP could go back to an earlier version, or could work to extract individual parts, but it wouldn't take long for this to be impractical.
This "pollution" of the codebase is why Busybox officially changed from GPLv2+ to GPLv2, they realized that they had included GPLv2 only code for quite a while and instead of trying to relicense or eliminate the GPLv2 only code they shifted the project license (and therefor by default the license of future contributions) to GPLv2
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