gcc would be difficult to make into a commercial product. How about 10 year old ...

		shagie on Sept 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year prote... gcc would be difficult to make into a commercial product. How about 10 year old Linux and not having to jump through any hoops or legal problems of TiVoizing it? Or 10 year old iText from when it switched to AGPL? Now you can completely ignore that. I can point to people running even older iText- they would love to update it to something more recent with no copyright protection at all under a 10 year limit.

Sure, why not? Keep in mind that all these would be competing against up-to-date versions of the same software.