

There is another issue on their tracker that was opened many years ago about relicensing to GPL, but it kind of became one of those things where a bunch of people came in and discussed it back and forth to death with no resolution.
I remember the lead developer of the Rust version of Coreutils gave a talk about the project once and he addressed the licensing question by essentially saying (paraphrasing), “I don’t care about this. So I just picked one.” You’d think someone so involved with open source as that guy (seriously, he has a hugely impressive pedigree) would care, or would at least give a justification.
After learning about the absurdity of copyright law in the USA I’m not really convinced or compelled to give a cent to these companies. It’s not just paying for the content. It’s giving these big corporations money so that they can lobby for laws that are against the interests of most people.
Italy seems to be leading the way to an even more bleak future. “Bleak future” seems to really be the order of the day, huh?