On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 08:39:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The idea that an external party, that you are not affiliated
with, can change the license of an author is extraordinary!
Indeed, what if MS buys FSF and releases GPL4? Everyone will be
screwed.
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…
Well, this is what the author does: grants the right to relicense
to everybody. It's granted outside GPL, so one can't refer to GPL
being hard to understand.
