Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Hi,

On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 12:56 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > > Yes, clearly.
> > 
> > There is one very simple way to make all these critics go away:
> > relicense uutils to GPLv3.
> > 
> > Until that happens those concerns are perfectly valid, and we've seen
> > several popular projects become proprietary and do funny things with
> > the license.
> > 
> > Switching to GPLv3 would make all the concerns go away and focus the
> > discussion to be purely technical.
> > 
> > I don't think you can dismiss those concerns until then, they are
> > completely possible.
> 
> +1
> 
> That projects uses non-copyleft licenses on re-implementations of
> important (strongly) copyleft projects like Gcc, GnuPG, CoreUtils, tells us something about the FOSS ecosystem.

People can start a fork where the additional contributions are licensed
under a copyleft license. Though I would recommend a GPLv2-compatible
license to not lock out a large part of the ecosystem and cause more
fragmentation. The GPLv3 practically pushes people to non-copyleft
licenses to avoid license problems in the future...

Ansgar