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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

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2071 points K0nserv | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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Luker88 ◴[01 Sep 25 13:36 UTC] No.45092608[source]▶
So many people paraphrasing Stallman and GPL, and so few realizing that without legal enforcement these problems will keep happening over and over again.

Yet there is more BSD and MIT code than ever.

Android is full of open source stuff. GPL3 would have prevented this. We've all been bamboozled and we are starting to realize it.

I wonder if any project will start switching license. Unlikely, but one can dream.

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1. trelane ◴[01 Sep 25 15:19 UTC] No.45093405[source]▶
Switching licenses on a FOSS project without copyright assignment is almost impossible, unless the license already allows for it. See Linux kernel GPLv3 relicensing discussions of the latter aughts.
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2. Zambyte ◴[01 Sep 25 15:44 UTC] No.45093650[source]▶
All software distributed under permissive licenses can be sublicensed under GPLv3 overnight. And all future contributions can only be accepted under GPLv3. Software licensed as exactly GPLv2 (rather than GPLv2 or later) is harder to do this upgrade for because of the reasons you mention, but lots of software can have their license fixed.