El jue, 25-10-2018 a las 16:47 -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o escribió: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 03:39:01PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > Under Jacobsen vs. Katzer (535 f 3d 1373 fed cir 2008) authors of > > GPLed software have a specific right to relief (including > > injunctive > > relief) against misappropriation of their software. That ruling > > (which > > was the case of first impression on the binding status of the GPL) > > reputational damage is *specifically* recognized as grounds for > > relief. > > I've read the legal briefs, and I'm pretty sure they don't say what > you are claiming they say. Yes, I'm not a lawyer --- but that's OK > --- neither are you. > > > The anti-CoC dissidents don't have to rescind their license grant > > to > > cause a great deal of trouble. > > The *vast* majority of the "anti-CoC dissidents" who have been > advancing this argument, have, as near as I can tell, little or no > copyright ownership in the kernel. They are external trolls who are > not members of the kernel development community, to the best of my > belief and knowledge.
I understand the point, but being an outsider from the kernel development community, does not mean i should not care about Linux development and this particular community. I have been promoting, using, installing, testing and loving Linux for more than 20 years now. One of the things that got me into it and still appreciate a lot is the meritocracy: the norm of technical excellence, the: "it does not matter who you are as long as you contribute good code". This CoC "movement" is part of an anti meritocracy "movement" that should not be influencing a project that thanks to this meritocracy has become the most important in the world. I'll take one of the arguments of the CoC promoters and use it on my favor: The Linux community has grown more than just a bunch of developers it has: promoters, users, testers, enthusiast, companies, foundations, etc... I wouldn't like that a negative code of conduct (yes its languaje is aggresive and charged with negativity, politics and victimization) compromise the technical aspects of a critical system like the Linux kernel. When it comes to coding, Engineers should be above that stuff. > > In short; they are adding noise to the conversation, and have been > presuming that in fact people are going to be regularly and summarily > ejected from the community. In short, they are adding FUD, probably > because they have their own agenda. I have one agenda: World Domination :P > I would recommend that before people respond such provocation > messages, that they do a quick "git log" and find out whether they > have in fact contributed code to the kernel at all, and if so, how > long ago it was. Just want to clarify that this is not a provocation, just got tired of being a passive member of this discussion. You're right the people with more merit in this list should have a more important voice since it shows the commitment to the development. BTW Thanks for the comment, i will start contributing to the extent of my capacities. As i say, the reach of Linux is broader than just the development community. Too bad you can't git log all the servers that people has installed and maintaining during the years. > Regards, > > - Ted Cheers, Ivan
