On Jun 17, 2007, Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Open source licenses shouldn't forbid usages, not even the blatantly > unethical ones, "evil" is not tangible (I guess everything would be > easier in life if it was).
Since you mention Open source... What if I showed you that tivoization discriminates against field of endeavor? http://opensource.org/docs/osd 6. 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. Wait, TiVo, you're saying I cannot use this modified version of the program to do $whatever in this computer you sold me, and that's solely because you don't want to let me? Is this forceful restriction on how or where the program can be used not a discrimination against fields of endeavor? It's not a restriction imposed by the license of the program, but it is a restriction imposed by the manufacturer of the equipment that distributes the program, therefore, the conditions under which the program is distributed are not only non-Free Software, they also fail to meet the Open Source definition. Neat, huh? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
