Excerpts from Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi's message of Wed Jun 24 21:51:14 -0400 2009: > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> And if we get in tight, there are conflicts between different versions > >> of the GPL, this is ugly. To this are the lawyers, who enjoy these > >> things, and not for us who are programmers, right? > >> > >> Good Luck. > >> > > > > To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we > > should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. > > It seems to go against the spirit to do things like this. I like this > > sentiment. I mean, I get that there are zealots out there who strongly > > believe in their Chosen License as if it were a soccer team, but > > seriously - it's all free software, and we may be subtly violating the > > letter of the license, but the letter of the license is violating the > > _spirit_ of the license. > > > > > Ok Aaron thanks for the clarification :) > > I liked this phrase: "...but the letter of the license is violating the > _spirit_ of the license" ;) This may be bad thinking, but to be honest -- is Stallman, Linus, or <BSD Guy> _really_ going to sue a fellow open source program / distro for just using their stuff? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands
