DeVault: Reforming the free software message
DeVault: Reforming the free software message
Posted Jun 20, 2023 20:53 UTC (Tue) by developer122 (guest, #152928)In reply to: DeVault: Reforming the free software message by IanKelling
Parent article: DeVault: Reforming the free software message
https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1402885119161995264
https://lwn.net/Articles/858742/
AIan Kelling, senior member of the FSF, advocating for someone to fork the Rust uutils for no other reason that they didn't choose the FSF's preferred licence. I'm sure AT&T were quite unhappy when GNU started re-implemnting Unix under a different licence too.
Pretty poor cooperation with your peers in the open source community, to say the least.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/4...
There's even some speculation that you were the one who created the (now deleted) GPL fork of those same Rust uutils. Whoever did so managed to violate the one condition of their permissive licence, failing to give credit.
Posted Jun 21, 2023 0:35 UTC (Wed)
by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
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Regardless of how we may feel about Ian, such speculation is *wholly inappropriate* unless there is very strong evidence to support it. We should not go around randomly accusing people of infringing copyright merely because of an ideological disagreement.
DeVault: Reforming the free software message