[CS-FSLUG] NI: Lycoris, Mandriva Fumble Source Code Release

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

My understanding of the GPL is that it can be distributed by request
only so I don't have problems to it not being publicly accessible. I
also don't have a problem with it being a, "when I have access, you'll
have access" kind of scenario. It just seems really odd that he doesn't
have access. Anyway, like you said, it's a wait and see how it pans out.


I guess Cheek got himself into a sticky situation. I kind of feel sorry
for him. The OSS community can be really strong in turning on its own
sometimes.

So what do people want to do with this Iris code? Why has it even come
up?

JSR/

-----Original Message-----
From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Don Parris
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:32 AM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] NI: Lycoris, Mandriva Fumble Source Code Release

On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:41, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> So, if I catch this right, in our digital age some piece of
> controversial software is trapped in a box for the next 3 months? I
> wonder why it isn't on a server somewhere easily accessible to at
least
> the limited few who have made it?
>
> Did I miss something?
>

You didn't miss a thing.  No one has explained why the code wasn't made 
available in the first place.  That's a problem.  Cheek admits to the
code 
being trapped.  He also admits the code is GPL'ed, thus it should be 
available to all, not just the developers.  But your question is still
valid.

Don

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