Amusing article about busybox

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
<bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> On Son, 2012-02-12 at 01:26 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> [...]
>> It doesn't matter why the GPL exists, it only matters why the
>> copyright holders chose it. If they realize the GPL is doing a
>> disservice to them, they might choose something else.
>
> But you cannot change the license of already released versions *and* you
> need the agreement of all copyright holders to change the license.

So? Licenses do change. It is not a pleasant process, in some projects
more painful than others, but they do change if they must.

> And that's what some (if not many) people motivates to work on GPL
> software (and to not work with other licenses).

As the GPLv3 vs GPLv2 divide demonstrates; not all people have the
same expectations about what the GPL should do.

-- 
Felipe Contreras