On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:52:54AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:14 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: >> OLPC is at risk of similar action unless it gets its act together. >> The project and its customers have skated by on GPL compliance, >> figuring that we're the good guys, and make halfhearted attempts every >> once in a while, so we won't get sued. That didn't work for Cisco. >> Even a public *allegation* by FSF that OLPC is not compliant would >> have an effect similar to the "We're going Microsoft" debacle, further >> alienating the free software development community who OLPC depends >> deeply upon. OLPC has, by distributing binaries under DRM, without >> source code, and with minimal notice, hung a sword over its head that >> just about anybody could unleash. >> >> John > >Some of us are new to one or another part of this issue, and need a >bit more background.
For some basic background, please see http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4265 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4268 Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
