On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:47:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > [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. > > I don't agree.
I can also add a list of people who do not agree to the license. Everyone, at least here and in the USA, has the right of free speech, not just me. Tell me what kind of statement you would like to see in that file, and I will add one. > Given the amount of work I do, I think it will be easy to override > my vote if others feel as you do. > Your stated plan is to leave Fvwm. Have you reconsidered? I am contributing right now, and probably for the rest of the year. Other than that, we will see what happens. > I don't think any tie-in with the software, especially as it > pertains to the license is a good idea. Why? Any other form would be moot as it reaches nobody. > Please uncommit until you get agreement so that I can continue > to check out, build, test until then. As the only requirement I made is that fvwm users read the ethical license, and you seem to have read it, I see no reason why you can not do these things. If it is because we disagree on the contents of the license, I can not help. I have only one life, and I had to make a choice. I will not back out because that choice has real consequences. I have to stand the image I see in the mirror tomorrow morning too. > > * supporting, planning, preparing or executing wars and other > > military actions. > > I see you left out terrorist acts. I saw no need to overload the ethical license with terms that are already made crystal clear by laws. If it helps with acceptance of the terms, I will happily add this. But if it just helps people to shut their eyes and say "I a'm already against terrorism, isn't this enough?" I would rather leave the statements as they are. Dan, to be honest I am disappointed that you mention it at all. I have never said anything else but that I abhor any form of violence, that *nothing* justifies violence. My sympathy with the victims of the terrorist attacks has not lessened a bit, and every victim of this war and any other war will always receive the same sympathy. Your innuendo that I might have 'changed sides' hurts me. I will never argue who had more/less right to kill because this whole logic is perverted and inhuman. Even thinking of it makes me feel sick. > You are trying to involve Fvwm in something it shouldn't be > involved in. I have given much of my life-blood for it, and even if I have put my work under the GPL I still hold the copyright for it. And so I can at least say that the parts that I wrote are involved in ethics as my whole life is involved in ethics. I don't want to be forced to think of the open source community as something that happily absorbs any contributions and then tells me to keep my opinions for myself. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
