the term "retroactive relicensing"
the term "retroactive relicensing"
Posted Jan 23, 2012 1:25 UTC (Mon) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)In reply to: Please don't spread FUD... by landley
Parent article: Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity
Who said you were spreading FUD? khim's corrections were in response to a comment by dlang.
However, your characterization _still_ strikes me as strange. Usually when I see the words "retroactively relicense the old tarball", I would assume that that means there was old code under one license and they have revoked the license, replacing it with a new one. You can be unhappy with the license chosen for binutils 2.17a and the choice to put that symlink there (and I would agree with you) but calling it fraud as dlang did or retroactive relicensing as you are seems disingenuous.
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