On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: > > If all of the open source applications will remove SCO support, SCO's > budget will be distributed towards adding this support back. This can > reduce the amount of money going towards the lawsuit. > > Or worse - if all of the major open-source licenses will add an > anti-SCO clause, banning use on a SCO machine, SCO will be left > behind with current versions unless they write their own versions. > They have to be different than the O/S versions, because doing > otherwise would be a violation of the license. They have to be > released, per the old O/S license that they are bound to.
If you add a clause to a license that bans it from SCO, it is no longer free software. SCO and SCO unix users have the full right to support their own free software. Recall that free software bascally means you cannot and should not prevent "helping" other users. Not actively supporting free software on SCO (like recent version of nmap) sounds like a good idea. But not allowing SCO's users to help themselves is wrong. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
