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"fundamentally wrong" and "you cant read" are a poor choice of words in retrospect and i should have used "Fundamentally misrepresents the issue" and "you appea
by athrowaway3z 6y ago
"fundamentally wrong" and "you cant read" are a poor choice of words in retrospect and i should have used "Fundamentally misrepresents the issue" and "you appear to not understand why GPLv2 exists".
> Please refrain from personal insults ("clearly showing you can't read") as well.
I think the issue stems from:
> "I don't think it is near as big a deal as you make it out to be."
It is ambiguous weather you are "not sure about your logic", or if you are "not sure about Blikkentrekker logic".
I took it to mean the latter.
This puts your comment in a very bad light and set me off because it fails to acknowledge the issue Blikkentrekker is raising.
> "While you are granting the FSF the ability to relicense your code, they only have the ability to re-license your existing code"
A developer chooses the GPLv2 in part to what it does to _future_ code. `I provide this for free and we are all required to contribute future improvements for free, no-take-backsies`.
>"If the FSF releases GPLv3 and it is CC0"
is among the worse case scenario's for a developer that chooses GPLv2.
It invalidates their choice and leaves only `I provide this for free` and is the core of the issue at hand.
> My argument is that the FSF will probably not grant anybody privileges with the existing code that I don't like.
And this is a perfectly fine counter. Its a matter of if you think the risk is worth it.