Hi all,
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:03:05 +0200
Ira Abramov <hama...@ira.abramov.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 13:37, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: Israelis use Free
> > Software to inject malware to blogs":
> > > Are you trying to protect what they did in any way?
> >
> > No, but you need to be more focused in what you're blaiming them for.
> > Not every malicous program, breakin, security hole, and crappy software,
> > has to do with GPL violations. Not every criminal should be prosecuted
> > for GPL violation - when he did things even worse.
> >
>
> Well, I didn't say the malicious code was the violation of the GPL. there's
> both a GPL problem here (cited in the website's TOS), a bit of malicious
> code, and the open question of the obfuscation of that code which may be
> interpreted as a violation as well.
>
> Either way, my call for action was not a suggestion to open a debate on the
> wording of the GPL, but a community call to arms against such unethical
> behavior done "in our name" in some way. spreading malware in the guise of
> Free Software, abusing GPL code, should be a moral outrage and not a debate
> about the specific lines in the FSF's v2 or v3 version of some paper. this
> is not a legal issue, but an ideological, moral issue. If you break it
> apart like that and start giving excuses on why this is not prosecutable,
> WHAT IS THIS COMMUNITY FOR?
>
> So I ask again, is the community in favor of asking the va'ad to publish a
> sharp condemnation of this event and the perpetrators?
I do, but first we need to find out if it falls under the scope of Hamakor's
charter. I know we are pro-free-and-open-source-software (FOSS), but are we
entitled to act against malware?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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