[linux-elitists] Re: The GPLV3 Position... (and a suggestion to Jon Corbet)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Greg Sabino Mullane (greg@turnstep.com):

> > Has any project with real users ever successfully
> > moved from a license with fewer restrictions to one
> > with more?
> 
> Well MySQL did the whole "LGPL->GPL to make more $$" move a
> while back.

Add:  WINE from BSD to LGPL.  (Subsequent Project ReWind, the attempted
BSD-continuation fork, appears to have flopped.)

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