On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:41:58 +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030422 08:35]:
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:53:38PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>> > Authors have a moral right (and a legal one in some places) not
>> > to have their work mutilated.
>> You can assert a moral right to control how your work is used, or
>> you can write Free Software. You don't get to do both at once.
> You can. The _moral_ right is compatible with free software, the
> _formal_ right not. (And in some, rare cases the moral right is
> ignored. mkreiserfs could be a place like that. But that doesn't
> stop the moral right in general.)
You seem to be impying that all forks of free software are immoral.
manoj
ps. Someone ought let the XEmacs folks into this
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