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Even if thechange does not apply to works that have already been published, this is still newspeak. This is lawyers chosing words to mean what they say they me
by alexvoda 4y ago
Even if thechange does not apply to works that have already been published, this is still newspeak. This is lawyers chosing words to mean what they say they mean whenever they say it.
The Apache license does have the word irrevocable.
But BSD, MIT, EPL and others do not. Does that mean that if the copyright holder for lib v1.0 decides to change the licence for lib v1.0 (not subsequent versions) to something restrictive then everything using it gets frozen in time and nothing new can be made?
- hgsgm 4y agoThat's precisely the question up for debate. The answer is unknown.
- alexvoda 4y agoRight, and I think the person trying to legally poke the status quo on this issue is an idiot (as in, they are in Carlo M. Cipolla's lower left quadrant) because it will either blow up in their face or it will blow up in everyone's face. Same as with Oracle vs Google, other than a bunch of court room sophists, nobody really gained anything.