The FSF's being stupid again, it seems...

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 22:09:02 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:40 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:

> What's important to me is that people can _get_ the source code to reproduce
> the binary they've got.  (Nobody's letting anyone off the hook for that.  It
> must be available.)

I agree.

> Now if Morris was still on Erik's DSL line, rather than hosted by OSL,
> conserving bandwidth for the project would be important.  But these days
> there's things like sourceforge that are quite happy to mirror open source
> projects, so getting extra mirrors of vanilla release tarballs generally
> isn't a major limiting factor.

But it would be stupid if they hosted 3 different linux distros and had
to host 3 different copies of the same vanilla sources (+ patches) on
their servers.

> 
> By harassing Mepis (and presumably others like them), as far as I can tell the
> FSF is just making a neusance of itself, scaring people away from using GPL
> software and trying to solve a non-problem.  I'm curious what other people's
> opinions are.

agree. If BSD licence is easier its tempting to go for that. But I like
the idea that I can benefit if others are changing my code.

> 
> Rob
> --
> Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.
> _______________________________________________
> busybox mailing list
> busybox at busybox.net
> http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox




More information about the busybox mailing list