%% Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: dv> You hit the bull's eye, Dan. I have always been a fervent dv> advocate of the GPL because I believe in unversal cooperation dv> instead of competition, and developing open source software was my dv> way to contribute to that idea. Now I had to learn that I was in dv> error regarding the GPL, and that open source software *is* a dv> political thing.
I don't get it... it wasn't political before this thread started, was it? dv> As I said in some other mail, I think the GPL is incompatible to dv> the original copyright by Evans & Sutherland and Robert Nation and dv> I thus was never allowed to impose it on fvwm unmodified. I don't believe that's true. I remember when this was done and IIRC we asked around and got permission to make this change from most everyone involved. Anyway, the original license, IIRC, does not conflict with the GPL. If you go back to the code as it was before the GPL started to be used then of course you can change the licensing on that version--if _that's_ allowed, which it might not be either; we'd have to check the license. dv> Tim suggested to make a public plea for peace, similar to the dv> proclamation we made after the attack on the World Trade Center. dv> But I believe this is not enough. I would like to add a statement dv> about the fair use of fvwm to the license, and obligate *all* dv> users and developers (including myself) to read it and to make a dv> donation to aforementioned non-government organisations, no matter dv> how small the donation might be. Again, this is a violation of the GPL and so can only be imposed if everyone with copyright interest in the code agrees to change the license. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
