Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271747AbTGXWLY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:11:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271748AbTGXWLY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:11:24 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:49045 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271747AbTGXWLX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:11:23 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corsetti_Dutra?= Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:24:48 +0200 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20Fam=C3=ADlia?= Dutra Message-ID: References: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2096 Lines: 44 On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:57:44 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > A clone is illegal because you'd have to reverse engineer to do the clone > and reverse engineering is allowed for the purpose of interoperability, > not for the purpose of making a clone. First, you are too US-centric. Second, if this is only what is allowed, then we are living in a kind of a surreptitious world police state. Not a free world by any means. In this circumstances, I will consider any clone attempt a honourable act of civil disobedience necessary for the long-term survival of humankind, barring the Second Coming. Now, your interpretations of others' words are certainly self-serving. If I define a clone as a workalike, one has to do no reverse engineering. It would suffice to do the same tasks, and use your own interoperability stuff to get data back and forth. > Given that, you can see why some people are disgusted that RMS would > suggest it is OK to clone BK. At that point, it becomes a statement of > "it's OK to do illegal stuff if you are making GPLed software". Not only self-serving, but libellous. With each word you expose even more the evil. > Hardly the sort of thing you want on record in a public forum from a > free software leader when people are starting to question whether or > not the free software they have is actually legal. Even if I can't agree him on political or moral subjects, in this instance RMS acted exactly as I expected, and I praise him for it. I hope he's proud for it, but not proud enough as to damage his philosophy even more. -- _ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +41 (21) 648 11 34 / \ http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +41 (78) 778 11 34 \ / Answer to the list, not to me directly! +55 (11) 5686 2219 / \ Rate this if helpful: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=leandro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/