Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

From: Jeffrey Picard <jeff_AT_jeffreypicard.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:07:25 -0400

On 10/25/24 14:39, Andrey Dobrovolsky wrote:
> пт, 25 жовт. 2024 р. о 21:40 Страхиња Радић <sr_AT_strahinja.org> пише:
>> Дана 24/10/25 04:40PM, Andrey Dobrovolsky написа:
>>> Soon 14701 act by US government will be applied to all GPL licensed
>>> software.
>> Any references to whatever that is? Web search doesn't seem to return
>> anything relevant here.
>>
> Hi Страхиња Радић,
>
> First of all I need to apologize for mentioning the wrong number
> (sorry!), the right is Executive Order 14071 (oops) and describes
> sanctions against Russian Federation. The use case was banning of 11
> developers from RF from Linux Kernel maintainers list. Linux is
> developed under GPL 2.0 and here we can observe the case of applying
> the restrictions not mentioned in the license itself. GPL itself looks
> like acknowledged and running under US jurisdictions, and the fact
> raise concerns that any GPL-licensed software may one fine day be
> affected in some way with this or another politically-driven
> restrictions.
>
> Regards!
> --jazzbiker
>

I've been less than casually following this thread, but I feel moved to
jump in here and say simply Fuck GPL, fuck censorship in all it's forms,
and fuck no the license doesn't cover mandating keeping git history
intact. Put anything you want attributed in the LICENSE file, that's it.


--Jeff
Received on Sat Oct 26 2024 - 22:07:25 CEST