On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 06:23:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I think this thread, and every other discussion of GPL on the
net, demonstrate one of my earlier points: GPL is freaking
confusing.
Yeah, it is probably not a good idea to use GPL if you don't
agree with the political views of FSF and the policy-making they
are championing.
The idea that an external party, that you are not affiliated
with, can change the license of an author is extraordinary!
And probably at at odds with what is taken as basic authorship
rights in some jurisdictions. But it might stand a chance if the
author explicitly grant FSF the right to do it in every single
source file… It makes it more difficult for the author to claim
that he has been tricked by FSF to give them the authority
without understanding the consequences fully.
Some of the GPL weirdness is caused by FSF using copyright
treaties to take away authorship rights in all countries, while
the treaties are about granting the author rights in all
countries.
