Re: [Auth]Freport Update

[David Sugar]

True :).  I was making a point about trusting third parties, though, not
about the strength of free software :).

On 15 Mar 2002, Mike Warren wrote:

> 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.
>
>