Re: HAY Betov, still no support for GPL or LINUX, WHY ????

"wolfgang kern" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait
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> "Alex McDonald" <alex_mcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>| hutch-- wrote:
>| > Wriggle all you like Betov, make as much noise as you like but you
>| > have still not explained why you don't support LINUX and why you
>| > will not licence your software under the GPL.
>| >
>|
>| Linux isn't the point; there is GPL software for Windows, and the GPL
>| is platform agnostic. The point may be that the RosAsm licence is a
>| heavily modfied GPL, and hence isn't GPL at all. Betov once suggested
>| iirc that Guga was a lawyer and had written much of the RosAsm
>| licence.
>|
>|
>| As I wrote before in another thread;
>|
>| There are two licences, the GPL and the RosAsm licence. The GPL
>| doesn't have any force as a licence, because the RosAsm licence
>| clearly contradicts it -- and it's a mess. In fact, a court might
>| declare _both_ licences unenforceable as a consequence, and standard
>| copyright law would apply.
>|
>| RosAsm -- "20. The License does not apply and the Program and all
>| it's ' derivative works', 'works based on the Program' and documents,
>| tutorials, demos and all related material, are forbidden to be used,
>| copied, distributed, translated, analyzed, modified, and perform any
>| of the acts described on this License, by military, Para-military,
>| political, or any Governmental Agencies, Organizations, Institutes
>| and related personal/staff of any Country, especially when the
>| purpose of the usage of the Program is related to them."
>|
>| Which is as clear as mud (what in Heaven's name is an Institute doing
>| in this list?), and contradicts the GPL, which only permits
>| geographical restrictions based on patent. The RosAsm licence is
>| certainly not a GPL licence, or even any licence that the OSI would
>| recognise; the OSI explicitly state that; "No Discrimination Against
>| Persons or Groups; The license must not discriminate against any
>| person or group of persons." and "No Discrimination Against Fields of
>| Endeavor; The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the
>| program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not
>| restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being
>| used for genetic research."
>|
>| Or how about
>|
>| RosAsm -- "5 - The Licensee is free to use RosAsm to build his/her
>| own and independent programs, which means building a 'work based on
>| the Program', he agrees to create them respecting all terms of this
>| License whether the program is focused to improve the Open Source and
>| Free Software movement, whether it is focused to Commercial
>| applications, inserting a small reference that his/her application
>| was built using RosAsm followed by RosAsm's notice of copyright."
>|
>| That's nonsense _and_ extremely viral. No GPL compiler/assembler I
>| know of has such a clause; that the output of the program (and
>| presumably the input) must "respect all terms of this License"!
>|
>| Betov should stick with the GPL, or a properly drawn up open licence;
>| there are plenty at http://www.opensource.org/. For what everyone
>| apart from Betov means by open source, see http://www.opensource.org/
>| docs/definition.php.
>|
>| --
>| Regards
>| Alex McDonald


???!!!...

Ah... _Yes_, you found out the true words, Wolfgang: "".

:)))))))

Betov.

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