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FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy

FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy

Posted Aug 12, 2012 21:36 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy by Wol
Parent article: FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy

> If the FSF can't relicence it as commercially friendly...

but they were able to put in the wikipedia exception, allowing anything that was in wikipedia as of a given date to be converted to a different license that they didn't control (which includes it's own "or future version" clause)

If they can allow code to be relicensed under a different license that's controlled by someone else that you don't have such a contract with, what's to keep a couple such transitions from letting your code get to a license that is BSD under some conditions (possibly even only for some particular company)?


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