On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:08:02AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > 1. Most importantly - what happens if the witch-hunt is successful and rms and > the entire FSF board are sacked/forced to resign? Who replaces them? Who gains > control over the FSF and the text of the GPL? It's a broader question and you should ask who controls GPL now and who decides who controls it. See also "who decides who is on the FSF board?". It's good that this question was asked but it should have been asked long ago. > Don't be surprised if that happens and a "GPL v4" comes out in a year or so > that is watered down to be like the LGPL or, worse, a BSD-like license. It will certainly fix some FOSS problems but you should instead ask "what happens if the current FSF releases GPL v4, what content could it have?". https://gwolf.org/2021/03/and-what-does-the-fsf-have-anyway.html > The GPL needs a stubborn, uncompromising idealist like Stallman to champion > it - someone who can't be bribed or coerced or corrupted or conned. Even if > he is unlikable and repulsive. It's too important to allow corporations to > get control of it. Whatever his faults, Stallman can be trusted not to fuck > this up, or to fuck over the free software community. Debatable. -- WBR, wRAR
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