In message <e1o9kpn-0005yp...@fencepost.gnu.org>, "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: >If the FSF is the copyright holder, then there is no (legal) need to >ask the original author about permission to relicense the work. It >might be a nice thing to do, but if the original author says no for >some reason, the FSF can still relicense the work; they are the >copyright holders.
And for that matter, it seems that at that point, the original author doesn't have the right to just keep a copy under the terms under which they intended to release it... Thus the issue. (It turns out that GPLv3 is pretty deeply problematic for me; it turns out that I'd rather just let people like TiVO play stupid games than have to deal with v3.) -s
