Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft and freedom...

Posted Oct 29, 2015 23:18 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft and freedom... by rahvin
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

> From just a community standpoint to fork a permissive license to a copyleft license is kinda rude, in that I doubt many would disagree.

I disagree. The license explicitly chosen allows that action directly, so it is in direct accord with the explicit grant of license from the copyright holders.

If the copyright holders don't want that to happen, they have a well-known path that is completely in accord with software freedom: grant a strong copyleft license that *disallows* imposing further restrictions on the redistributed work.

By the logic of “applying license restrictions on a free-software work is rude”, those who find it rude should be embracing strong copyleft for their work. That they do not, speaks to a great confusion in their minds, I think.