Torvalds licensing ignorance

Posted Mar 22, 2007 0:41 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Torvalds licensing ignorance by bug1
Parent article: The Torvalds Transcript (InformationWeek)

He does point that out too sometimes. Fortunately, he gets the same result either way, so he doesn't have to choose. And even if he can't change the licensing, his thoughts on why he wouldn't even if he could may still be valuable and interesting.

OTOH, the Mozilla project *succeeded* in relicensing everything[1]. It was painful and took a while, but this sort of thing is possible if necessary. (Note that there is a fallback if someone cannot be contacted -- you can remove/rewrite their code. Not pleasant, but possible.)

[1] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/03/reli...