samba license change

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Oct 10 10:20:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:51 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 10 octobre 2007 07:10, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> 
> > Well, it matters very much to individuals if they want to endanger
> > themselves by the uncertainties of a "brand new" license a political
> > organization with controversial (some say "fundamentalist zealotic")
> > attitude (the FSF) tries to enforce.
> 
> Then don't link to GPLv3 code. Simple. Easy.
False - This is not easy. 

> Don't ask for the freedom to make licensing choices then deny it to
> other projects because they happen to make a different choice than
> yours (and incidentally they've been involved in actual trials which
> are likely to be more relevant to them than your anti-FSF paranoïa)
I prefer to rely on existing precedences which had been approved by
courts, and not a political party's wishful thinking.

Ralf






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