Excerpts from Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi's message of Wed Jun 24 21:51:14 -0400 2009:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
And if we get in tight, there are conflicts between different versions of the GPL, this is ugly. To this are the lawyers, who enjoy these things, and not for us who are programmers, right?
Good Luck.
To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. It seems to go against the spirit to do things like this. I like this sentiment. I mean, I get that there are zealots out there who strongly believe in their Chosen License as if it were a soccer team, but seriously - it's all free software, and we may be subtly violating the letter of the license, but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license.
Ok Aaron thanks for the clarification :)
I liked this phrase: "...but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license" ;)
This may be bad thinking, but to be honest -- is Stallman, Linus, or <BSD Guy> _really_ going to sue a fellow open source program / distro for just using their stuff? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands