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> What _real_ difference does it make? The only difference is that
> Gentoo Technologies, Inc. can't relicense it and make a closed-source
> version. However, if it was possible for them, and if they did, everybody
> could just ignore them and continue working on the last version released
> under the GPL.
The point is not that you can't fork the project. You'r right at that
you always can, if it's licensed under GPL. The point is preserving
the future "free" status of _all_ derivative works as well. If you don't
care about that, you can just put all the work in "public domain".