FireFox 3 EULA

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 16 16:53:40 UTC 2008


Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:44:55AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> For instance, a license that says:
>>> 	"you may not use this software for larceny"
>>>
>>> *IS*NOT* Free Software.
>> Then ISTM that whoever releases software which patently
>> could be used for criminal purposes should not use GPL.
> 
> The conclusion of that slippery slope is that then you should not release
> any software at all under any kind of license, because if you're going
> for criminal purposes, what's the point of respecting copyright? :)
> 
>>> But stating in the README file "The authors do not condone usage of this
>>> software for larceny" is totally different.
>> I don't know about "totally", but certainly that's different.
> 
> It's totally because it's not the license.

Does every thread on Fedora _have_ to become an argument? I agreed
with you.

Mike
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