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Re: [LUG] Recovering from when free software loses its way



Neil Williams wrote:


So whilst it is not likely to be free software, the project is no longer lost to the community.


A small but important victory.


Nice bit of guerrilla gnustiscim, so to speak.

Perhaps (and it won't be I, due to lack of energy/health) it would be a good idea to set a few people who want to help Free s/w (writ broadly) to examine licences for stuff on servers with an eye to backstopping licence changes. That wouldn't require technical programming skills, which I for one lack of any relevance (last bit of code I wrote commercially was the mid 80s!!) but a keen eye for the small print and enough wit to know what they are looking at and the relevance of the project.

Possibly once identified and clarified from the licence arrangements, all such stuff could be "banked" around various places, so things just can't be disappeared in this way when a developer simply un-publics (again so to speak) something.

Just a thought.

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