| 1 |
* Sebastian Günther <samson@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> The main point is that this also disallows the usage within NonOSS |
| 4 |
> software. That's what counts. Many OSS licenses do not care about later |
| 5 |
> closed usage, and so one backdoor is closed, where GPL code may become |
| 6 |
> unfree. |
| 7 |
> For me, some of the so called OSS licenses undermine the freedom and I |
| 8 |
> don't want them to be spread anymore. BSD is the one license where |
| 9 |
> freedom goes the step to far and is suicide. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
We already had to learn these hard lessons in xf86 times (and still going |
| 12 |
on w/ x.org): hw companies can close the sources of their own forks and |
| 13 |
do not need to give back anything. It even gets worse with the Linux kernel, |
| 14 |
where those trolls are allowed to publish propriatary driver crap (yes, |
| 15 |
99% of the proprietary kernel drivers I had to cope with, like nv stuff |
| 16 |
*are* really crap which tends to lock up the whole machine). At least for |
| 17 |
the vital parts of a system, this is very bad. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
cu |
| 21 |
-- |
| 22 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 23 |
Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
| 24 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 25 |
Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
| 26 |
http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
| 27 |
Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
| 28 |
http://patches.metux.de/ |
| 29 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
Archives