Suprised we aren't seeing more of this

Posted May 5, 2025 14:04 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Suprised we aren't seeing more of this by pizza
Parent article: Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)

> How is someone supposed to _ever_ verify the entire supply chain, all the way back to the original author... if they're even alive? After all, copyright doesn't require formal registration, and it is quite common to publish under psuedonyms.

And the GPL is even simpler than most in that regard - to paraphrase the GPL, all you have to do is prove that the original author(s) lawfully released it under the GPL (ie it was theirs to release), and you can completely forget about all the intermediate steps it took to get to you. They're irrelevant.

Cheers,
Wol