Re: RH and GNOME
Kysh Dragon <debian@dragonfyre.soark.net> writes:
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe, as Manoj has said,
> while you can't retroactively license a work, you CAN relicense a
> work. Ergo, they could switch to entirely commercial licensing when
> they got enough market share and `newbie share' to not worry about
> the people they'd run off doing it.
Right, and as soon as they did, we'd take the last free version, and
get a group together to carry it forward. The non-free people be
welcome to continue working on their newly licensed version, but I
would bet that a lot of the community would come with us, and in any
case, we'd still have a perfectly usable platform to build on.
In fact, this just happened with XFree86 (or was that finally
resolved?).
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