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

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:20:18 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization Debian
Message-ID <2065175.usQuhbGJ8B@soren-desktop>
On Sunday, July 12, 2026 6:05:25 AM Mountain Standard Time Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> 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...

What are the concerns with the GPLv3?  The only concerns I have ever heard 
raised are by people who fundamentally disagree with the principles of the 
DFSG and don’t like that the GPLv3 enforces them.

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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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