On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Son, 2012-02-12 at 01:26 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> It doesn't matter why the GPL exists, it only matters why the >> copyright holders chose it. If they realize the GPL is doing a >> disservice to them, they might choose something else. > > But you cannot change the license of already released versions *and* you > need the agreement of all copyright holders to change the license.
So? Licenses do change. It is not a pleasant process, in some projects more painful than others, but they do change if they must. > And that's what some (if not many) people motivates to work on GPL > software (and to not work with other licenses). As the GPLv3 vs GPLv2 divide demonstrates; not all people have the same expectations about what the GPL should do. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
