On 19/02/07, imacat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I support the GNU over BSD license, though this is not the subject here.On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:53:38 -0600 Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Ashley Pond V wrote: > * You, are part or, work for an entity that directely produces > work or goods for any of the above. I'm against this, too. This term may blocks large parts of the world from the legal. If the army has asked me a project, should I take it? Of course I'll take it. If a young lad from a poor family come to my suggestion, that her/his family can't pay her/his tuition, should I suggest her/him not to join the army? No. The armed school pays quite well, and has better job security than many other businesses. Besides, the ones that truely creates the wars are the politians, not the armies. Armies are merely people that follow their leaders, and their ultimate leaders are the presidents and congresses. So, will you block all the governmental use of your module? Whether the army is good or bad may not be the subject here. But the modern economics system is complex. This kind of treatment against the army is not fair.
Yes, leave the army alone, they're only following orders. By the way it's not clear which army you're talking about, is it just nice, responsible armies who only kill bad people? (They know they're bad people because the politicians said so.) How about the Indonesian army or the Burmese army? I guess once you take morality out of your economic decisions things become much simpler. Any to keep this sliglhtly relevant, I wouldn't choose this license - it's incredibly vague and is missing all the usual stuff about redistribution, modification etc it just says "free software" which has no fixed meaning. That said, I have no problem with someone who tries to achieve some other (political) goal through their free software license, Stallman is doing much the same thing. Given that it's possible to upload a CPAN dist with no license at all, if CPAN wants to start getting picky about licenses, there's a lot of work to be done, F
