Re: [Trisquel-users] FLIF may be dead on arrival due to GPL license

[strypey]

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.

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?