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Fedora is drafting a new mission statement. The new initial proposal:
Fedora creates an innovative platform that lights up hardware, clouds, and containers for software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
The original goal was:
to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software.
Is saying open, or free, openly (excuse the pun) becoming something to be ashamed of? Are project ditching their ideals? Fedora barely mentioned free (or Free, to be more clear), but now it's even more vague. It's like if had to be reminded over and over to those in charge, as the triggered thread demostrates.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:12PM
Have all code licensed under GPLv3/AGPLv3/LGPLv3 with the 'or later' clause provisional on the project head published an enactment of it when the new license comes out, or transferring the right to do so to the suceeding project lead.
This allows you to keep it from being 'or later' if the later licenses suck, but leave the opportunity open unlike in the GPLv2 (no or later) case of Linux. Trying to allow/disallow a change in license is easier if you have the permission implicit up-front rather than having to rewrite or petition every dev at some indeterminate point in the future.