Hola! Aparentemente, según el mail de John Gilmore que les copio, el Gobierno Uruguayo podría haber violado la GPL3 con el Plan Ceibal (Tivoización). ¿Alguien tiene más información? Saludos, Ariel
--------- Mensaje reenviado -------- > De: John Gilmore <[email protected]> > Para: Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> > Cc: OLPC Devel <[email protected]>, Sugar Devel > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Asunto: Uruguay violates GPL by deleting root on OLPCs > Fecha: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:32:00 -0700 > > > > Ignoring the fact that some deployments ship without root access. > > > > Is the practice of completely locking-down the laptops something we'd > > even want to encourage? > > Shipping the laptops TiVoized like Uruguay does has put them into serious > legal trouble. OLPC should definitely not encourage anybody else to do this. > Why bankrupt your project by losing a copyright enforcement lawsuit? > > Shipping the laptops without root access is a direct violation of the > GPLv3 license on a dozen packages (probably 50+ packages in later > Fedoras). They have shipped binaries, while using technological means > to deny the recipient the practical ability to upgrade or replace them > with versions modified or chosen by the recipient. > > Only an idiot would distribute hundreds of thousands of units while > setting themselves up to pay the Free Software Foundation any amount > of money they demand. (Given the way OLPC and Uruguay have > ignored the notice that they're in violation, for years, I do hope FSF > extracts both future compliance, and its next ten years of operating > expenses, from these scofflaws.) > > Or does Uruguay think, "Sue us for copyright violation in our own > courts -- we'll make sure you lose"?? In other words, do they > just brazenly steal the GNU Project's software, knowing it's wrong? > > John Gilmore > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Gleducar - http://www.gleducar.org.ar Para enviar mensajes: [email protected] Desuscripción: escribir un correo a [email protected] Información de la lista: http://gleducar.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gleducar Para ver los mensajes anteriores: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.edu.gleducar
