From: Mivz <mivz@alpha.spugium.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:18:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A29DC2.4030608@alpha.spugium.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A29612.3030609@gentoo.org>
Mike Doty wrote:
> Mivz wrote:
>>> Then I have got this one question, I don't need a answer too.
>>>
>>> How free is free software if you need a lawyer and a expensive server
>>> just to be able to publish your addition under your own name?
>>>
> Very free. There are many project sites that will host your content if
> you have it under a GPL or similar license. Similarly, as long as you
> provide the source, you satisfy the main point of GPL. Thousands of
> projects do exactly this without any input from a lawyer.
>
But then it's still 'free beer', and not 'freedom'. I still can not
write a patch and make a cd with the patch applied to give to my mum and
my friends, without the risk of my intelligence being stolen and abused.
Or I have to go through the hassle of finding a provider, which of
course needs attention too.
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Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-28 9:21 [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing Mivz
2006-06-28 9:39 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 10:47 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 11:14 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 9:44 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-06-28 11:33 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-28 14:28 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 14:45 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 15:18 ` Mivz [this message]
2006-06-28 15:34 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 15:45 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:34 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:52 ` Luca Barbato
2006-06-28 16:55 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 17:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-06-28 15:42 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-28 15:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-06-28 16:19 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:54 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 19:48 ` Luca Barbato
2006-06-28 21:16 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-30 21:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-06-28 14:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Greg KH
2006-06-28 14:54 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-06-28 15:01 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-06-28 15:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-06-28 15:30 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 17:00 ` Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-06-28 17:54 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-28 19:20 ` Maurice van der Pot
2006-06-28 22:17 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-30 20:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-01 9:14 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-01 11:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-02 13:58 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 15:59 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-04 15:34 ` Marius Mauch
2006-07-04 19:43 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-04 20:15 ` Nick Devito
2006-07-05 8:38 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-07-05 13:20 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:11 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 20:31 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-05 13:24 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-05 14:17 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:00 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:19 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 13:38 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 14:19 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 15:04 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 15:51 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 16:16 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 20:28 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 23:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-06 11:54 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-06 19:14 ` Michael Cummings
2006-07-06 20:47 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 14:47 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-05 17:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-05 17:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Curtis Napier
2006-07-05 17:20 ` Jakub Moc
2006-07-05 17:29 ` Mike Doty
2006-07-05 17:33 ` Joshua Jackson
2006-07-05 18:42 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 16:26 ` Nick Devito
2006-07-05 12:58 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 16:47 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-06-28 19:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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