Let me make some comments to the issues that have come up.
1) My motivation is by no means political. It is solely based on
moral. I can not bear that my work is misused to kill people.
I do not mean to punish or antagonise anybody, but I am trying
to save myself.
2) I am fully aware that such a change of the license will make
it impossible to ship fvwm as part of Debian and other Linux
distributions.
3) Given the results of similar wars in the past, I do not think
the license will last only for a short period of time, but for
years (i.e. many thousand civilians killed, like in
Afghanistan, Kosovo, etc.).
4) I am thinking about allowing to "buy" the right to use fvwm by
making a donation to one of the mentioned non-government
organisations, for example Amnesty International. I assume
that nobody accepting or helping the war will do this. I trust
people's common sense when they decide the actual sum to
donate (of course other forms of donations are accepted too).
5) Determining a way how the license can cooexist with the GPL is
a very delicate matter. It will take time to write down a
water-proof license.
6) In case I can not find a license I currently see the only the
option to completely cease contributing to the open source
community.
Thank everybody for the comments. I *am* listening to all
complaints, suggestions, etc.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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