Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs
FW GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code to anything behind it if they decide to close it. I bet the same goes with OLPC then. Also probably: Hey kids, we here at Gooble Corp. have so many extra computers lying around, we've decided to offer you all shell accounts using the famous Debian GNU/Linux operating system plus our bonus tweaks! So just connect to our computers instead of having to go out and buy a computer of your own and install all that mess. We here at Gooble know how confusing source code is, and that is why we are making every effort to never let you see it again, accidentally or otherwise. Use computers some old fashioned way? Why bother! Get with the G-program! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs
Dear legal beagles, all I know is if one day I couldn't do [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -l apt-get --print-uris ... wget ... to examine the .debs that were Debian debs but slightly modified by Dreamhost (or other such web host), well that would mean the whole Free Software concept had come to a grinding halt. I.e., Junior is sitting at the prompt using $ emacs ...; grep ... but no longer able to see the source of what he is using. Yes he could go to gnu.org or debian.org and see some progenitor versions, but not the source of what he is using, despite all the Copyleft labels still visible in them using strings(1). So Dear legal beagles, please close this loophole, if any. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web hosting providers' modified .debs
Just curious, e.g., dreamhost.com modifies Debian .debs to produce their hosting environment, which we Dreamhost users then use on our shell accounts there. If I can do $ cat file then I should always also be able to cat the source (.deb) to that same cat, no? (I can at present.) Yes I read that Affero news, but am not sure it is relevant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
