Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: [...]
Technically, however,
they can authorize any third party to distribite the stuff on whatever terms they like. They just can't do it themselves without "polluting" the [L]GPL "brand."
that is not a barrier, since the foundation can create additional licenses with the desired provisions, and refer to such documents as additional versions of the General Public License or Lesser General Public License.
That would affect all works (not only the stuff owned by the FSF) released under GNU Lesser General Public License Version X or later and (note that the LGPL allowes one way conversion to the GPL) GNU Public License version X or later No assignment needed. regards, alexander. -- #include <war> // computer game war stuff ;-) int main() { unsigned explosive_power = 0; while (still_not_eliminated("FSF")) { send_a_bomb("FSF", explosive_power += 10/*kiloton*/); fork(); } }