On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:18:07AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > As you don't know what grants and what duties you have when dealing with free > software, please try to inform yourself. You may get into trouble if you > change > things that are forbidden by law. > > Let me quote the license person from the board of directors from the > OpenSource > initiave: > > No OpenSource license gives you all grants you need to change anything > in the source. If the authors or Copyright holders of a software like, > they may always sue you. If you like to avoid being sued, play nicely > with the Copyright holders.
Uh, citation needed. "Giving you all grants you need to change anything in the source" is practically the definition of an open-source licence, with the exception of removing the original copyright and licence notices. What changes have been made that are supposedly illegal? (Note that introducing new bugs is, sadly, not illegal anywhere that I know of. If it were, Microsoft would've been out of business years ago, along with probably everybody else. ;) ) -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
