On 1/21/13 1:31 PM, David Ascher wrote:
- we know that bad guys will fork Firefox and turn it into malware
I don't think malware is the concern, or even people forking with evil
intent. There are plenty of people and companies doing cool and good
things, whose goals just don't happen to overlap with the ethos of free
software.
But I do agree that culture has changed, and that a copyleft license
feels less necessary than it did a decade ago. Especially for a large,
deep, active project like Firefox... It's hard to imagine how, say, AOL
could stroll back in, make a private fork of Firefox, and have any hope
of long term success.
OTOH, Gerv's thread isn't about Firefox, but Mozilla as a whole. I can
easily imagine there being other projects under the Mozilla umbrella
where private forking is a plausible event.
I don't feel strongly on the issue, but I'd ask a couple of questions:
* For projects that have strayed from copyleft licensing, was there a
particular reason why?
* For projects below some threshold of size / importance / effort /
whatever, should we even care?
Justin
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