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There is little chance of FSF changing the GPL as long as RMS continues to run it, given his monomaniacal, pathological obsession with software freedom at the e
by bbanyc 4y ago
There is little chance of FSF changing the GPL as long as RMS continues to run it, given his monomaniacal, pathological obsession with software freedom at the expense of literally everything else, including basic human decency.
But he's not going to live forever (thank god) and his successors might try to use GPL4 as a political wedge within the FOSS community. Put in restrictions on project governance and codes of conduct, make a violation unrelated to the software itself terminate the license, something like that. "Ethical source" didn't get anywhere but something backed with the heft of FSF might. (Given how RMS has stacked FSF with loyalists, it's probably more likely that they'd do something to punish "ethical source" than enshrine it. Both are equally corrosive in my view.)
Or it might make FSF even less relevant. We'll see.
- hoseja 4y agoStallman was right, continues to be right and will be right. Sadly.