[News] "Berniethlon" - The End | ANN.lu |
Posted on 01-Dec-2002 18:46 GMT by Gareth Knight (Edited on 2002-12-01 21:44:11 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 221 comments View flat View list |
"It saddens me greatly to announce that, effective today, any of my Amiga-related software development has been mothballed indefinitely. This means that, pending any unexpected developments, there won't be any "Amithlon v2" (aka "Berniethlon"), nor any further support or add ons for "Amithlon v1" by me."
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Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 02-Dec-2002 17:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 156 (Bill Hoggett): >Let's get a few things straight: the GPL can be considered a legal >document, but the FAQ is not. The latter merely clarifies the FSF's >interpretation of
I agree, it is not a legal document. But it is still an official document of the FSF. And I think an official document should not include purely subjective things... they can say so in private, but should not include
this into official documents without providing clear proof. Like it is
it sounds extremely unprofessional.
> the GPL and since they commissioned it for their own puproses, it >represents the "spirit" of the GPL.
Actually I do not think a contract (and that's what the GPL is, a licence contract) can have such a thing as a "spirit". It has contractual regulations, nothing more.
>Why should they care if you're annoyed by their stance or not? Do you >think they're bothered that Microsoft are much more than "annoyed" about >it?
Wether they care or not, I find it offensive. Especially as they claim it in a way, as if this would be only natural (while actually it isn't). They don't even give any reasons why this would be so.
Per Larsson:
>When you are talking about the freedom of selling and distributing your >programs without the source, you are at the same time "taking away" the >freedom of your users. Had you licensed your programs
On the other hand the GPL also takes away freedom - the freedom of using
GPL'ed code in all projects I am working on (projects with a licence
incompatible with the GPL for example). Other OpenSource-licences (the
BSD-licence for example are much "free"er than the GPL - I can use the
code in both OpenSource and ClosedSource projects). I am aware that when
the FSF says "free" they mean something very specific, which is not this
definition of "free".
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