Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that so long as the source for these programs are generally > available there's no real problem. The problem shows up when someone > uses this technique (which could be a web server or a shell server) to > make the programs available for use but intentionally restricts access > to source & binaries. This hasn't happened with shell accounts (to my > knowledge, at least) and probably wont, since shell users would > generally prefer the shell to be local, creating a large hurdle for > anybody who wants to take bash "proprietary" in this way.
My server is available to friends. I *explicitly* refuse to allow them to bang my disks into oblivion by filling them with source. Heck, I would even have the right, I insist, to filter their net usage to prevent them from using the shell account to download any source using the account.
