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Dual-license with a proprietary license is not allowed by the papers you sign when assigning copyright to the GNU project. »We promise to always keep the softw
by ArneBab 10y ago
Dual-license with a proprietary license is not allowed by the papers you sign when assigning copyright to the GNU project.
»We promise to always keep the software free. This promise extends to any successors in the copyright, meaning that even if the FSF were to go away the freedom of all users to share in the contributions wouldn't.« — https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignment-at-the-fsf https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignmen...
This is the difference between copyright assignment to the FSF and most other copyright assignment.
- cm3 10y agoWhile surely better than Google or Ubuntu, the new license can still be non-proprietary but highly controversial.
- cyphar 10y agoIf that happened, people could fork the projects immediately and continue under the old licenses. Sure, the FSF would be able to distribute code in an unfriendly license, but the community backlash would be so bad they wouldn't even consider doing that.