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Inside OpenSSL's battle to change its license: Coders' rights, tech giants, patents and more

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: I don't see the problem...

"Open source or not: there are only a few people who actually own or run the project."

Your problems start at word 13. Because of the way the original licence works, there are not "only a few" people who actually own the project, even if there are only a few running it or contributing to it. Worse, the law does not have a rule that says "there must be an easy solution to this". It doesn't even have a rule that say "there must be a hard solution to this". Copyright protection is *supposed* to be something that other people can't unilaterally take away from you just because you were looking the other way at the time. (It even applies after you are dead, FFS, and there isn't much more "looking the other way" than that!)

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