From: "robert burrell donkin" <robertburrelldonkin@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:56:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f470f68e0705280356rb893239k4b36f0c8f56dd829@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705280542.32246.bss03@volumehost.net>
On 5/28/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2007, Richard Freeman <rich@thefreemanclan.net> wrote
<snip>
> > That requires
> > a bit of trust to work, and I'm not sure it is the best model. Sure,
> > with RS in charge I'm not worried, but nobody lives forever...
>
> Worst case scenario you fork from the last acceptably licensed version, so
> as long as the present license is perpetual and non-revocable then you are
> fine. IIRC, the GPLv2 is perpetual but revocable, but only if you violate
> it (for ANY content) in the first place.
FSF is a charity (see http://www.fsf.org/about)
even if RMS dies this will not effect it's chartered aims
- robert
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-26 19:07 [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a complete desktop remotely? Mark Knecht
2007-05-26 19:37 ` Olivier Crête
2007-05-27 15:40 ` Mark Knecht
2007-05-27 15:56 ` Peter Davoust
2007-05-27 16:04 ` Richard Freeman
2007-05-27 16:56 ` YoYo Siska
2007-05-26 19:49 ` Aleksey Kunitskiy
2007-05-26 19:53 ` Conway S. Smith
2007-05-26 20:29 ` Simon Cooper
2007-05-26 22:24 ` Conway S. Smith
2007-05-26 21:47 ` Nuitari
2007-05-26 22:20 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-05-27 0:00 ` Duncan
2007-05-26 22:51 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Conway S. Smith
2007-05-27 6:48 ` Joerg Gollnick
2007-05-27 10:57 ` Richard Freeman
2007-05-27 11:11 ` [gentoo-amd64] Sun and GPL Isidore Ducasse
2007-05-27 23:32 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-05-28 0:41 ` Isidore Ducasse
2007-05-28 3:42 ` Wil Reichert
2007-05-28 6:12 ` Naga
2007-05-28 3:56 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-28 9:25 ` Richard Freeman
2007-05-28 10:42 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-28 10:56 ` robert burrell donkin [this message]
2007-05-28 11:52 ` Duncan
2007-05-28 16:23 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-28 17:28 ` Nuitari
2007-05-28 11:14 ` Duncan
2007-05-28 13:14 ` Conway S. Smith
2007-05-28 17:46 ` Duncan
2007-05-28 18:38 ` [gentoo-amd64] Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) Sebastian Redl
2007-05-28 22:56 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-05-29 0:50 ` Wil Reichert
2007-05-30 0:33 ` Florian D.
2007-05-30 4:09 ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-05-30 4:38 ` Wil Reichert
2007-05-30 7:39 ` Duncan
2007-05-30 7:43 ` Isidore Ducasse
2007-05-30 22:57 ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-05-30 9:12 ` Florian D.
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