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> In May 2022, the MIT License of SIMH version 4 on GitHub was unilaterally modified by a contributor to make it non-free, by adding a clause that revokes the right to use any subsequent revisions of the software containing their contributions if modifications that "influence the behaviour of the disk access activities" are made.
That seems weirdly specific. Looking at the actual LICENCE.txt file:
> Any use of this codebase that changes the code to influence the behavior of the disk access activities provided by sim_disk.c and scp.c is free to do that as long as anyone doing this is explicitly not licensed to any subsequent changes to any part of the codebase in the master branch of the git repository (https://github.com/simh/simh) made by Mark Pizzolato after the LICENSE.txt was added to the master branch of repository. Changes that qualify for this restriction at least include: changing the behavior or default of SET AUTOSIZE/NOAUTOSIZE, or any code in scp.c and sim_disk.c or any simulator components that use the sim_disk routines.
I'm guessing this Mark Pizzolato made some changes to the implementation of "disk access activities" that he deemed were important but which other people found controversial, and he wanted to make sure they stayed?