On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Simo Sorce wrote: > > > >> It's possible, but rare for project that has been under the GPL for any > >> length of time. Since there is no requirement to track the copyright > >> ownership of contributers there is generally no way to get permission > >> from all of them for a change. Of course a dual license could be > >> applied from the start with one being less restrictive like perl's to > >> eliminate that problem. > > > > Such dual licensing would be useless. > > How has it harmed perl to not force it's users to worry, as this endless > thread has, about whether or not some component that it links is too > free or not free enough? Heh, this discussion is actually useless too. You dislike the GPL, fine, I think everybody understood that. Now you have 2 options: come to terms with it, or not. In either case I'd suggest you express your frustrations about licenses on some other list, not on a development list. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
