[LAU] [LAD] Some new things to play with

Jeremy jeremybubs at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 00:37:35 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote:
>
> > Does the software world need a better way to handle this reputation
> issue?
> > (The rest of the world in general as well perhaps?) Is there any way to
> build
> > a signed binary where this can be checked from within the binary itself?
> > Perhaps stick the signature at the end of the binary and have the signing
> > routine check all but the area that holds the signature? (Not well
> thought
> > out, just an off the cuff idea.)
>
> Nothing new is needed. Except maybe a more widespread awareness
> that if the free software world is turned into the Far West it's
> not going to last.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>
> There are three of them, and Alleline.
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Is releasing changes to other peoples' software really the equivalent of
"the Far West"?

Isn't that the entire point of releasing something under the GPL instead of,
say, a shared source license?

If you don't like the work he did, by all means, disassociate yourself from
it, but please, don't say that you're not going to release any more software
just because someone released a change to a GPL program of yours.

Jeremy
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