Re: Emacs CLA requirement

[Philip Kaludercic]

Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com> writes:

> Furthermore, a contributor license agreement allows the FSF to migrate
> Emacs' grant of license at any time -- whilst the regular "or later"
> clause only allows Emacs to also be available under a later version of
> the GPL; If a malicious actor relying on hypothetical system X, which is
> resolved in a hypothetical GPLv4 in the future, decides to redistribute
> a future Emacs under system X, then he would be able to do so after
> removing the small portion of contributions made under the "GPLv4 or
> later" clause.  That seems like a rather big problem.

What do you mean by "system X"? Could you give a more concrete example?

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        Philip K.