Re: [Auth]Freport Update

[Mike Warren]

David Sugar <address@hidden> writes:

> Consider this, the FSF holds copyright on many free software packages
> exclusivily.  They could, on their own, at any time, choose to change
> these packages to a proprietary license and have the full support of
> the law in doing so.

Luckily, all the free software packages the FSF holds copyrights for
are licensed under the GPL; if the FSF did what you suggest above, all
the projects could (and likely would) immediately fork. All the code
up until the license change would remain free.

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