Many in the community are only just starting to realize the potential impact of this case on FOSS licensing
Many in the community are only just starting to realize the potential impact of this case on FOSS licensing
that modified GNU licenses are problematic should not be surprising. i'd stay away from any project that tries to do that.
the impact is similar to companies calling their products open source even though they don't use an open source license. now we get a company calling their license GNU even though it actually isn't.
beyond that i don't think the outcome of the ruling will matter much.
So Neo4j added additional restrictions to their "GPL" licence, those were removed by a project that redistributed it.
FSF called out Neo4j and Neo4j just relicensed their entire project rather than make it properly GPL, but won't stop hassling the redistribution of the old version. Presumably to stop a GPL version of their older code being out there?
Madness.
Neo4j got to where they are on the backs of the open source community, which makes this situation that much more maddening.