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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:20:26 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:35:55AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2004 00:50:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 00:38, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > If you don't trust FSF (this seems silly for a GNU project), then you may
> > > always switch from "version 2 or later" to "version 2 only" when version
> > > 3 comes and you actually disagree with it. It will however be harder if
> > > not impossible to switch the opposite way.
> >
> > Not true. You can't switch licenses w/o consent from all contributors,
> > nor would it actually _help_ (if version 3 was messed up enough to not
> > want it), because anyone wanting to use the wiki contents under version
> > 3 could start at the stuff at the precise moment before the hypothetical
> > license change (from "2+" to "2").
>
> Ok, then, your unfounded distrust in FSF plus hypothetical problems in
> the future versus real problems for canonical GPL'd projects now.
Haven't you got that backwards? There are no real problems posed by
v2-only licenses now, only hypothetical ones in the future.
And after the GFDL fiasco, I wouldn't call it "unfounded"
distrust. The FSF has already demonstrated a very strange notion of
"free".
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrien Beau, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Rob Weir, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Ollivier Robert, 2004/03/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/29
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22