Re: Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

[fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org>]

On ו', 2013-08-16 at 10:11 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 07:48, fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org> wrote:
> > True, I don't suggest to prevent the mirrors: Just not automate. Anyone
> > can create a mirror manually, and it's their freedom to do so. But I
> > don't think maintainers should have their modules automatically synced
> > to GitHub without allowing them to switch it off.
>
> May I suggest that you read the GPL[1] again?
>
> Term #1 of GPLv2 says, "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of
> the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium."
>
> A maintainer of a GPL v2+ module has absolutely no right to stop
> anyone making a public exact copy of the software (automatic or
> otherwise). The license does not allow him to discriminate against
> companies that he doesn't like. See also #5 and #6 of the Open Source
> Definition.

Sure. I don't *stop* anyone. I just ask for an on/off switch, because I
feel maintainers should have such a switch. There's a huge difference
between a person making a fork, and the whole GNOME project officially
having GitHub mirrors.

Therefore, by turning off mirroring for a module, you don't block
anything or stop anything - you just avoid pointing to a proprietary
service, which is legitimate in my opinion.

> [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
> [2] http://opensource.org/osd
>
> Jeremy
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