Bind v. TinyDNS

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Sun Jan 4 22:33:07 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:14, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:52:03PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > Fortunately, Fedora Core's goals do not allow for unfair conditions
> > placed upon it's users.
> 
> I consider it unfair that you feel content demanding a provider to give
> you full re-distributions rights to code that you did not write, nor did
> you contract to have written.

It's not about me, so allow me to rewrite your phrase into a more proper
form:

<<I consider it unfair that one feels content demanding a provider to
give full re-distributions rights to code that one did not write, nor
did contract to have written.>>

So, you consider it unfair that people demand Free Software?

> Fedora Core's goals cannot be illegal goals. If Fedora Core requires the
> right to patch source code, and distribute the patched source code and
> binary in full (as it seems to require out of necessity, more than as a
> project goal), and the author does not grant this privelege, then Fedora
> Core *shall not* include the software.

As a community project, FC's goals can't, for sure, allow software that
has conditions that are unfair over the community, like limiting the
knowledge-pool.

> If, on the other hand, Fedora Core expands (as it seems the plans
> include) to allow the code author's to submit their own SRPM/RPM
> packages, then it may be feasible, and sensible to allow products
> such as Tiny DNS to be included in Fedora Core. You wouldn't have to
> feel like you were doing something wrong, the author of Tiny DNS
> wouldn't feel like control of development was being taken away from
> him, and it is possible that *everybody* would be happy.

I have faith that FC won't distribute non-free (as in speech)
software...

> Or, you could keep shouting senseless demands on this mailing list,
> a place where nobody can legally do anything about the situation...

No, but it's a place where one can educate the community about Free
Software alternatives over proprietary software, like DJB's.

Rui

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