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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia


From: Mike Warren
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia
Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:29:56 -0700
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address@hidden writes:

> How likely is the license for Nupedia going to change to something not quite 
> as free (IE blatent corporate exploitation of a group of volunteers)?

Luckily, even if this unlikely event were to happen, the existing
volunteers could take all the GPL code and free-documentation-license
content and start their own project in relatively short order, as you
point out below:

> There is an implicit assumption that the Free Software Foundation
> won't be exploiting software developers in this manner, and even if
> they did, the terms of the GPL can easily allow you to move a
> project or two that you feel restricted about using.

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