Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > From: Caspian <caspian@twu.net>
> > I'd just like to state that if anyone out there is interested in making a
> > completely, utterly free software GNU/Linux dist, with a license that
> > prohibits putzen like those at Corel from pulling the sort of nonsense
> > they've been pulling, (i.e. a license even stricter than Debian's) I'd
> > love to help out.
>
> OBLIGATORY THIS IS NOT FOR SLASHDOT NOTICE.
Hee!
>
> Mr. Caspian,
>
> I have an even better idea. Let's do a commercial Debian distribution the
> right way. We can show them by example.
>
> Bruce
>
As much as anything with "commercial" in the name makes me feel saddened
just to talk about it, something like this clearly needs to be done. Yes.
This is definitely a good idea. Much as I sometimes wish to lash out at
the proprietary world by making a license even stricter than the GPL, I
know that I'd have to go such a route alone. Besides that, it might be
overreacting...
Perhaps efforts could be made to provide free alternates for all (or at
least MOST) non-free packages... i.e. Mozilla for Netscape, my proposed
PiClone/PINE-Clone for pico/PINE, yatadayatadayatada... and of course if
it had a EULA, it wouldn't restrict the OS to "adults" only, nor would it
make misleading statements about what copyrights "protect" about the
dist... :)
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