Honestly, anyone who gets one of these should say no what would you all think if people quietly took derived works of software licensed under one license and took silence as assent to relicense
Does this mean that with an unanswered email i can now release my re licensed as ISC version of gcc? or the linux kernel? This sort of action just means that any software you write can be plagiarized against your will if you did not find out about it in time. thats really not cool If you write software this is not a world you want to live in. Even if it does mean a anyone who can fork a github repo could get rid of the GPL after a period of non response from an author (dont go on vacation). As much as I might not agree with the GPL personally, I respect someones right to release thier work under a license and have it respected. without having to constantly answer emails and click web links telling people no On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:58 Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > > The start suggests they want to privately collect sufficient consensus > > > to pass their agenda. They appear to be considering all actions in > > > the tree (including mine) on equal grounds. > > > > I already sent them a clear "NO, i explicitly object to relicensing > > any of my contributions." > > > > If any of you care about the possibility of merging future OpenSSL > > improvements to LibreSSL and OpenBSD, i suggest you do the same. > > > > Similarly, if any of you dislike publishing their own code under Apache > 2. > > There has been no discussion amongst the greater community of > developers as to which license to take. Apache 2 has come as an edict > from Rich Salz. > > There has also been no statement from the original authorship that this > is the way to go. > > I suspect there is a lack of approval from some, and manufacturing > consent in volume is the approach being taken. > > > Apparently lawyers are being paid to help them push this through. Is > that being paid for by donations people gave after Heartbleed? Is > this why people donated? > >
