Bug#509546: About NihonLinux.
Hi Hideki,
>
> So, why there is NO explain about copyright violation made by Nihonsoft
> for
> Mandrake distribution and misunderstanding about GPL and GGPL, yet. I've
> never
> seen that. Are there any pages or mails for that?
As far as I know, no Mandrake-based distribution was released by
Nihonsoft, so no copyright violation occurred. The debate about GPL and
CGPL/GGPL is on going, but I am no longer involved in those discussions.
The original aim of NihonLinux was to produce a distribution similar to
Ubuntu, but it was caught in an unfortunate controversy.
Besides NihonLinux, the only two products released by Nihonsoft are
firecat( http://firecat.nihonsoft.org ) and turbosql(
http://turbosql.nihonsoft.org ).
Both are under the LGPL.
> but how about Nihonsoft's founder, Souhei Abe?
At that time(2002), Mr. Abe did not fully understand what FOSS was about,
but that can be said about most new Linux users. However, that does not
mean his intention was bad. Only as we participate and use FOSS more, do
we begin to understand more about Free Software.
David Fu.
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