From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hscw4-0005Zo-Uv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 10:58:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4SAv2LC012221; Mon, 28 May 2007 10:57:02 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4SAv0eb012216 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 10:57:01 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 76so426306wra for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 03:56:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qDdEEvEo25qsT+volrqBCSxrRvWjvuAYrBF+J1xRPWAEmpEzb+Mrw50+w9AY2BqSBvWsc+bP2q1KUP069Z0bHC9cwQLWfd0sGpYw5cwbTbSvSwc/P2l3mZJZ/0/SM+BHF9vSPgFNdtFit+hCkymVGgCLQH7zLYWYJ6UIAaoJc24= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tx9ODQnzjxI2riKkTZGNk/ppzxbvSPXWRcBlFLrsGEaozrRPJiHl90sWMq+kODHYy5oow8JHPFy0Y92WFnk/1f/22WqYgbSFHTYNOa6otzt0gJHHvTjyUvHcdeb4dnwdqYJlpE48+rw8mKUzRZNAXhYB74OTwv78ofboNDHcP1I= Received: by 10.143.160.1 with SMTP id m1mr165457wfo.1180349819092; Mon, 28 May 2007 03:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.8.19 with HTTP; Mon, 28 May 2007 03:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:56:59 +0100 From: "robert burrell donkin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL In-Reply-To: <200705280542.32246.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0705261207q2845c578rdf1d85bd2e4db1d@mail.gmail.com> <200705272256.22367.bss03@volumehost.net> <465A9FF8.4090306@thefreemanclan.net> <200705280542.32246.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: fa6a7179-cf27-4689-8123-6b5b4a00fb25 X-Archives-Hash: fdffc8bdc220d8c4afadba8db936977e On 5/28/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2007, Richard Freeman wrote > > 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 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list