On 8/4/20 9:42 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> As for how to convince upstream, I can't help with that. At one time
> Linux distribution licensing policy would have had a lot of influence
> on upstream behavior, but I think that is much less true today.
Usually what works well for me is if you can collaborate/work with the
upstream to build understanding of how a license can negatively impact
the wider distribution of their work to a technical audience (Fedora/EL).
JSHint is a very contemporary example (like, shared yesterday after 7+
years of blind-rewriting) you can use as a reference:
https://twitter.com/JugglinMike/status/1290317065295929345
http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/you-may-finally-use-jshint-for-evil/
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory (he/him)
https://jwf.io
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