On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 12:54:40 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software > […] > That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with > Seqoia, […] for > generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed.
This is again and still a wild mischaracterization. :/ <https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/[email protected]/> To (partially) quote: ,--- The reason many upstream projects and distributions are distancing themselves from GnuPG (at various speeds), is a thing of GnuPG's upstream own making. There's been long standing concerns about its UI, security and implementation. Mishandling the OpenPGP RFC process and then subsequently getting off it, and not just refusing to implement it but in addition creating a schism and a fork in the ecosystem did not help matters, which is what has triggered many to seriously look into alternative OpenPGP implementations (which thankfully we have many to choose from now!). All this has had no relation whatsoever with licensing. (BTW and AFAIR most of Sequoia components are either LGPL or GPL.) `--- Regards, Guillem
