Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adf...@openmailbox.org> writes: > I have just thought of some more advantages and disadvantages too. > > * Strengths > > ** One less split in development effort > > This one explains itself. Also, for a related article against "forking", > "bundling", and "reinventing the wheel" practices, see > [[https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/09/embracing-conways-law]]. > > * Threats > > ** People who still refuse to contribute to GNU Emacs for some reason > > I have seem people making completely separated projects from GNU Emacs > due to concerns of being required to assign copyright to the > FSF. However, first and foremost, I must add that I'm in favor of doing > such assignment, because FSF is a charity organization --- not just a > non-profit ---, and they, together with other organizations, do > community-oriented copyleft enforcement, not the > "average"/"extortion-based" copyleft enforcement. >
Whoa: some of what you describe exists (see e.g. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/), but it is a distant outlier. Calling it "average" is as inaccurate as calling Pele an "average" footballer. -- Nick
