[plug] Cyberknights vs SCO

[Shayne O'Neill]

Hey Nice work Leon.

I never did finish my little opinion piece (kicking back and seeing how a
couple of things unfurl)

Leon is on the money for loss of business thing. I've had no job for about
a year ago, cos there just doesnt seem to be the willingness in the sector
I work in to take that risk.

If I had bux I'd have no qualm about filing suit for lost income.

Its amazing, but the emotions I feel about these guys are so damn negative
it hurts.

Sic em leon.

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On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Kai wrote:
>
> | A few days ago I read this:
> | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040205005057966
>
> The groklaw page links to a nice article by Leon which I hadn't seen
> before - http://www.cyberknights.com.au/scoaway.phtml
>
> I'm a bit dubious about the "What can I do?" section, though, which ends:
>
> 	If you release any software under the GPL, consider a specific
> 	exclusion of rights along these lines:
>
> 	/*
> 	 * Name Of Program
> 	 * Copyright (c) 2003 Your Name Here <email at address.here>
> 	 *
> 	 * May be distributed only under the terms of the GNU General Public
> 	 * Licence (GPL, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for details)
> 	 * except that all rights are withdrawn for The SCO Group, their
> 	 * employees or agents, any person employed or contracted with The SCO
> 	 * Group in a management position during the calendar year 2003, any
> 	 * company owned by, controlled by or affiliated with such a person or
> 	 * their immediate family, and any employee or agent of such a person
> 	 * or company.
> 	 *
> 	 * Without prejudice to the above paragraph, and without granting any
> 	 * rights whatsoever, let it be known that the rights mentioned above
> 	 * are withdrawn because The SCO Group have demonstrated callous
> 	 * disregard for the Open Source community and a willingness to
> 	 * carelessly disrupt the lives and businesses of millions of people,
> 	 * apparently driven by greed, and have expressed malicious intent
> 	 * with regard to the very GPL under which the right to use this
> 	 * software might otherwise have been granted. In short, since you
> 	 * haven't played nicely or by the rules, you won't be permitted to
> 	 * play with these toys at all.
> 	 */
>
> As I understand it, anything with such a licence wouldn't be free
> software (at least by Debian's standards - see DFSG#5 "No Discrimination
> Against Persons or Groups"), wouldn't be GPL-compatible (Leon's licence
> places further restrictions on redistribution which the GPL forbids) and
> would generally work /against/ the openness and code-sharing that is
> characteristic of free software.  That strikes me as a pretty poor trade
> for some uncertain degree of protection against a short-term threat from
> SCO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cameron.
>
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