It's their choice of course, but I would recommend they stay with GPL but use GPLv3. This would give proprietary vendors a legal guarantee that they are safe from patent trolling if support FLIF. To do that, they would either need to write to own code from scratch, or comply with the copyleft. Why should proprietary vendors benefit from code written by the free software movement when they're not willing to let us benefit from their code?
There's no compromise involved. They specify that any "permissive" license
they move to later must be GPL-compatible. Relicensing was probably their
intention right from the start, but the anti-copyleft trolls on Slashdot
don't usually let nuanced details like that stop them from howling for blood.
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