Hi, there were already discussions about violations of the GPL on Linux audio lists, but I have forgotten if it's allowed to provide the source to customers only. IMO it doesn't matter what's allowed and what isn't allowed, there's an ethical commitment to keep source code open. Another issue is that companies might be unfair, common sense for civilised societies is, that if somebody is unfair or criminal, this still isn't a reason to become unfair or criminal too. It's not a daisy chain, "somebody has stolen my toy, so I'll steal the toys of other children", kindergarten teacher don't allow such a behaviour.
"The test series, unfit in our view for production use, will however continue to be available to the public to avoid impact to the Gentoo Hardened and Arch Linux communities." In other words, the Linux community is still good enough to provide the base code and unpaid testers. However, I'm not surprised, social intercourse affecting refugees becomes more and more uncivilised with every hour, so I don't expect that intellectual property will be shared in a civilised manner. Humanes are degenerated, at least uncivilised, if they care more about a killed lion, than about other humans and sharing unexceptional everything. 2 Cents, Ralf PS: I'm an Arch Linux user, but there's no mailing list for such discussions. I also doubt that this list is the right place to discus it. One list for such discussions is http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
