On 02/09/14 15:27, Adrian Custer wrote: > The stop energy from some folk on this list is remarkable. The lack of > empathy in the recent emails sent on the previous thread turns comments > which are otherwise merely ill-informed into a disagreeable reading > experience.
I apologise if my comments seemed unempathetic. I agree that there is no requirement that only OSI software be used for populating the database. KaiRo is free to express his own opinion, but I would not say your initial message to the list announcing your software was inappropriate for that reason at all. However, the legal issues can't be avoided; you are asking us to use software that you refuse to give us a license to use. Can't you understand that this places people, who have respect for the law, in a difficult position? >> No source code repository? Yes, this was unnecessarily brusque. > The authors are not lawyers and > it shows. They do not know nearly as much about the subtleties > surrounding the legal situation of free software as other do; otherwise, > they would not allow themselves to make such wantonly unqualified > statements. IANAL, but I am the Mozilla project's first point of contact for copyright licensing issues. I deal with a variety of them every week. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
