On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:53:40AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:44:55AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >>>> For instance, a license that says: >>>> "you may not use this software for larceny" >>>> >>>> *IS*NOT* Free Software. >>> Then ISTM that whoever releases software which patently >>> could be used for criminal purposes should not use GPL. >> >> The conclusion of that slippery slope is that then you should not release >> any software at all under any kind of license, because if you're going >> for criminal purposes, what's the point of respecting copyright? :) >> >>>> But stating in the README file "The authors do not condone usage of this >>>> software for larceny" is totally different. >>> I don't know about "totally", but certainly that's different. >> >> It's totally because it's not the license. > > Does every thread on Fedora _have_ to become an argument? I agreed > with you. I didn't take it as an argument, see the smiley? :) Rui -- Or is it? Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 40th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
