Why I have trouble trusting FSF

Posted Aug 10, 2011 22:07 UTC (Wed) by foom (subscriber, #14868) In reply to: Why I have trouble trusting FSF by davide.del.vento Parent article: Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments If you're an upstream project, releasing code under the GPLv3, and then a downstream decides to fork your codebase, and release all their changes under the AGPLv3 (so you can't reintegrate them without changing licenses), that could be rather upsetting. (That's just like BSD code being converted to GPL. But the GPL didn't used to allow for that possibility.)

Posted Aug 10, 2011 23:39 UTC (Wed) by davide.del.vento (guest, #59196) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm not sure I buy your argument. You (upstream) could have licensed your code under LGPL, somebody added something and licensed his/her parts under GPL and you still can't reintegrate them, regardless of Affero and v2 vs v3 argument, right?

Why I have trouble trusting FSF

Posted Aug 11, 2011 0:05 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

that is part of the decision in licensing your code under the LGPL (just like someone can do that if you license your code under the BSD license)

prior to this, that has not been something that people who use the GPL had to deal with.

and if you think this sort of thing never causes problems, then you've been missing a LOT of flame wars started by BSD people complaining because GPL people use their code in ways that they can't benifit from.

Why I have trouble trusting FSF

Posted Aug 11, 2011 12:34 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Those must be BSD people who secretly whish they were not, because being able to integrate others' changes is NOT what their license was designed for.

Why I have trouble trusting FSF

Posted Aug 11, 2011 19:47 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

That is not problems, that is just BSDers whining over their license working as intended.