Re:Nano is no longer a GNU project
by cm3 on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:00AM
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While surely better than Google or Ubuntu, the new license can still be non-proprietary but highly controversial.
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If that happened, people could fork the projects immediately and continue under the old licenses. Sure, the FSF would be able to distribute code in an unfriendly license, but the community backlash would be so bad they wouldn't even consider doing that.