Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
First of all, I'd like to apologize to the subscribers of this list for my recent excesses. I'm known to have a hard time resisting the impulse to participate in mailing list debates about software freedom and related issues, but most of the time I manage to keep it under control. Furthermore, I

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: I apologize to all Fedora users and contributors for my excess and for the harm I caused, and I thank my colleagues who approached me with a friendly tone and helped me see my error. On the bright side, you've made the news: http://www.linux.com/feature/142772 No, RS

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-03 Thread Alan Cox
Les - if you want to restart the whole thing, please do it somewhere else. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > Having source available is not enough for Software to be Free. It > > might come as a surprise to some, but it's not even enough for it to > > be Open Source. > > Perhaps you don't even realize that the word

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:31 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Linus Torvalds advocates developers being able to choose their own > licensing. etc. etc. etc. Please don't wake the demon. This thread died a natural death over a week ago, to universal relief. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-lis