>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I have checked in a new license file with ethical license terms to >> the development branch. See below for the contents of this file. >> Furthermore, I added this statement to the beginning of the >> COPYING file: >> >> Before using this software, every user is required to read the >> fair use statement in the file ETHICAL_LICENSE that comes with the >> fvwm distribution. >> >> Please tell me your comments, enhancements, critique, etc. Also, >> I ask everyone who ever made any change to the CVS repository or >> submitted a patch to support this license and have his or her name >> added to the list of subscribers. Dan> I don't agree. Dan> Given the amount of work I do, I think it will be easy to override Dan> my vote if others feel as you do. I don't agree either, even though I haven't actually contributed since '98 (before the change to the GPL, the legality of I wondered about at the time) and therefore am probably even more override-able. I tried to stay out of this but it's getting hard to ignore, especially now calling for "everyone who ever made any change to the CVS repository or submitted a patch" to support it. I suppose I fall into that latter category, and therefore now felt the need to say that I don't support it. ... Dan> I don't think any tie-in with the software, especially as it Dan> pertains to the license is a good idea. ... >> * supporting, planning, preparing or executing wars and other >> military actions. Dan> I see you left out terrorist acts. Dan> You are trying to involve Fvwm in something it shouldn't be Dan> involved in. This I agree with, fvwm is just a window manager, just leave the politics out of it. It's bad enough having to deal with or hear about the pseudo-politics involved in all the other various wm and desktops out there let alone drag "real" politics in. On a slightly related note, I also thought it was odd (although a nice gesture) to even mention the Sept 11th stuff anywhere with fvwm documents when that happened too, but that was a little less contentious. Out of curiousity, did anyone ask Rob Nation's point of view (privately of course, since I didn't see anything on the list) about all of this when he posted to the list the other day? I don't really know him at all, but somehow doubt that he would support it either, given his background and when/where he developed fvwm originally. I'll go back to simply lurking again now, as I don't want to get drawn into any debates on all of this, merely wanted to let my position be known as well so as to not seem to be agreeing because of my silence. Chuck -- Charles K. Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/) "Behold my tongue of doom and tremble...TREMBLE!" - Sheen (Jimmy Neutron, "My Son, the Hamster") -- 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]
