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If you have control of the copyright, yes, you could change the license from straight GPL to any kind of customized license you want. I guess you could restrict
by fnj 9y ago
If you have control of the copyright, yes, you could change the license from straight GPL to any kind of customized license you want. I guess you could restrict access to any group you want. But if it's open source, it would be pretty difficult to enforce your policy.
Even if you closed the source, ruining it for linux, what good would that do? The cat is out of the bag already. Anybody could just use the existing open source and fork it further as they wish.
- jordigh 9y ago> But if it's open source, it would be pretty difficult to enforce your policy. So, two things: (1) a license that discriminates against a particular group is not open source, (2) being open source or not has nothing to do with whether enforcing the license will be difficult. Enforcing the license is just a matter of the resources available to the copyright holders. Many proprietary licenses are routinely violated, some free and open source licenses have been enforced.
- 0x0 9y agoDebian had non-US repositories in the past and it didn't "ruin it for linux". Perhaps they could be brought back, with the addition of geoblocking US clients from accessing the non-US repository.