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   ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 09:31:24 JST ロミンちゃん
   ms buying fsf and making gpl4 proprietary to hijack gpl or later loicensed projects
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 09:43:15 JST 翠星石

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     @romin Such possibility was forseen decades ago and dealt with in advance; "The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns."
     
     - After a theoretical microsoft purchase, it would no longer be the *Free Software* Foundation.
     - If the GPLv4 is proprietary, than it's not a valid future version.
     - GNU freedom fighters will be lining up to deal with the proprietary hijackers after the invalid license version is legally rejected.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 09:49:05 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @Suiseiseki 'similar in spirit' can be left to interpretation in courts :l_wink:, the other listed items aren't on the license text so they are meaningless.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 10:15:19 JST 翠星石

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     @romin >'similar in spirit' can be left to interpretation in courts
     Yes, courts like to screw things up, but I don't believe even a court could error so badly to give any credence to the idea that proprietary terms are in any way similar in spirit and addresses new concerns in software freedom.
     
     >the other listed items aren't on the license text so they are meaningless.
     It specifically says "The Free Software Foundation may publish", not "The microsoft software foundation may publish".
     
     Any hijacking of the FSF by a proprietary software company would lead to the foundation immediately disbanding and no future versions published by anyone else are valid.
     
     It's hardly meaningless to anyone that has hundreds of freedom fighters lined up ready to carry out a GNU/Exorcism.