Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris
Anthony:
Loved your "for those of you following at home" post.
As is "pressing" people. You can justify hostility, certainly; but it's
at least worth trying "honest and cooperative" as an approach first.
It didn't start out that way, not as I read it anyway.
When you see some code that's not available under the GPL's terms,
what's your reaction:
My reaction is that the author is entitled to make his work products
available under any license he chooses.
That isn't what's going on here, though. As far as I can tell, Erast is
completely disregarding the legitimate rights of the copyright holders
of the software he's shipping with his system. That isn't "some code
that's not available under the GPL", that's "theft".
And, I mean, seriously: using the threat of legal action to make people
remove free software from the Internet? Whose side are we on here?
No. The threat of legal action to stop the theft of Free software. Big
difference.
Erast hasn't done *anything* to address or even acknowledge the CDDL/GPL
compatibility issue. His system as currently implemented clearly
depends on linking CDDL works with GPL works. The authors of the
software he's distributing with his system haven't given him permission
to do that. Quite simple, actually.
To be fair, I must admit that I'm not a DD and I don't hold copyright to
any of Erast's software. But I believe strongly in the way Debian does
things, and I use a *lot* of Debian software in my work. So I justify
my participation in this thread based on my interest in protecting
Debian's interests.
b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com
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