On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni < giampa...@tomassoni.biz> wrote:
> Because I'm a bit old. And I like freedom. And I prefer to have to bother > with mailing lists and bulletin reports and have the control of systems, > instead of put my work in the hand of people who could change the rules at > will. > > An open-source project is not supposed to change rules at will. The license > itself of open source software is often oriented toward this view, such > that > it guarantees people to keep using software they already got, even when the > project becomes a completely commercial one. > Wow, not even close. OSS licenses cover what you can do with the source code. Nothing more. Nothing less. And there's nothing stopping you from grabbing the clamav source code, rewriting freshclam to ignore updates past the 14th of April, and making that available to the world. *THAT* is the point of OSS ... you have the freedom to do whatever you want with the source code. There's nothing in any OSS license that says the software will always work, that the software will be bug free, that all future updates will work with any previous version, etc. > Because the open-source idea is > all based on freedom. > Not in the way you think it is. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
