On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
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
Well said!
Jim
_______________________________________________
Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
