Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
by notaplumber on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:36PM
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I said it was a dick move, not an invalid one. The person is choosing to licence their contributions with an arbitrary set of additional restrictions.
Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
by icebraining on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:25PM
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And like any other choice, it's not inherently free from criticism.
It only applies to further work done on the project. By licensing your work under a BSD/MIT/etc. style license you explicitly gave anyone permission to use the work in nearly any way they wanted, including as part of a Apache, GPL3, or even completely proprietary closed-source project.
If everyone else on a project decides to use a different license than you picked for their future hard work, that's their choice, not yours.