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eikenberry 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being loc...

It was, some see the GPL2->GPL3 as a rug-pull... but it doesn't matter today as the FSF stopped requiring CAs back in 2021.

mirashii 11 months ago [–]

That's a harder argument to make given the "or later" clause was the default in the GPLv2, and also optional.

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