On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:52:54AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:14 AM, John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> 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
Thanks. That explains about source code and notice. Is there anything about DRMed binaries? > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4268 That's a lost cursor bug. I assume you meant some other one. > Thanks, > > Michael > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel