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A CA isn't really necessary for GPL code as such, but changing license without one is a massive pain, so you essentially commit to GPL and its restrictions fore
by one-more-minute 12y ago
A CA isn't really necessary for GPL code as such, but changing license without one is a massive pain, so you essentially commit to GPL and its restrictions forever if you don't have have one. This has caused problems for other projects (I think KDE is an example).
Obviously this also means we can't move from MIT now either, but it wouldn't really make sense to, since you can't practically add restrictions to already published code. (Strictly speaking I think you could still use LT under the GPL if you wanted).