13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
2:37 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts
wrote:
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
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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