Re: What's in a name?

Date: 2013-06-20 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mjg59
"You can lock a device. Gplv3 or not."

Section 6 of GPLv3 clearly says you can't.

"Fear and doubat about about proprietary relicence"

Canonical are the ones who wrote the CLA that explicitly says they can relicense any covered code under a proprietary license.

"If good open-source guy like you do the same it's good and just"

You know I used to be a member of the Ubuntu Technical Board, right?

"Judge people on fact and action not on some idiot theory based on nothing !!!"

Get rid of the section of the CLA that permits proprietary relicensing and I wouldn't have an argument. So, why is it there?
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