Aren't the licensing 'wars' over?

Posted Aug 18, 2023 13:15 UTC (Fri) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Aren't the licensing 'wars' over? by Wol
Parent article: HashiCorp's license change

> The problem would be if the FSF went bust.

The FSF would not go bust. A nonprofit can exist based on part time volunteer hours and little to no money. Of course, that would be a very sad day which I hope never happens.

Aren't the licensing 'wars' over?

Posted Aug 18, 2023 19:07 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (1 responses)

It is certainly possible for a charitable organization like the FSF to go bust. The most obvious way this could happen is if they borrowed money they couldn't pay back. Unless they borrowed some really huge amount, they might get bailed out by being taken over by another charity with a similar interest. I could easily imagine FSF getting taken over by someone like Software in the Public Interest or the GNOME Foundation if something like that happened. I don't know the ins and outs, but they might have to be taken over by another charity (a 501(c)3 like SPI or GNOME) rather than some other kind of non-profit (e.g. a 501(c)6 industry consortium like the Linux Foundation).

Aren't the licensing 'wars' over?

Posted Aug 19, 2023 14:17 UTC (Sat) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link]

> It is certainly possible for a charitable organization like the FSF to go bust.

In relation to my post, this is typical strawman kind of argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man: "You said X, but in fact it is possible for not X to happen!"