come on how many open source projects do you know which supports SCO?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Mark Veltzer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: > > > > But there are other implications to this form of activism. Soon some guy who > > doesn't like some country will add a clause to the O/S license banning use in that > > country... Not a good precedent. > > > > The owner of a project is entitled to give whatever license he wants. > He cannot, however, claim that after prohibiting SCO to use the product > the license is GPL compliant. It is not. > > That is why I did not mention licenses. The GPL is great. We should keep > it. And the GPL does not have a built in "Black List" feature. Which is > good. > > I was talking about the myriad of small details which makes a project > like gnome or kde or apache compile well on SCO. If the gnome or kde or > apache stop accepting patches to clean the compilation on SCO or even > tear out support for SCO compilation from their ./configure.in scripts > there is nothing against that in the GPL... The GPL does not oblige the > author to support platforms he does not want to and this WITHOUT > modifying the license. > > People who wish, for instance, to create an open source project which > specifies that Israelis cannot use it are welcome to it. I have nothing > against them except that I would not join any project which has such a > black list in it's license and I hope others won't either. In any case > I would fight against this kind of project trying to classify itself as > free source. A free source should have the same rights for everyone. Even > the detested SCO. It does not mean that free source developers should > keep on bypassing SCO weirdness using their configure.in scripts and > makefiles while the SCO CEO is on the war path with them. Let SCO do > that - if they can!!! > > Cheers, > Mark > > ================================================================= > 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] > > ================================================================= 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]
