Re: SHUT UP! Re: WIN32 compilation, the spirit of GNU software.

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

damn

i was really hoping everyone else could resist responding until i had made
my attempt at being diplomatic.

i resisted the temptation to say something harsher than Cyrille said, I
can only say that i think he was fairly restrained.

Is it possible that we could force posts from certain people to require
moderation rather than bannning them from the list?

later
Alan

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:33:49 +0200
> From: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: SHUT UP! Re: WIN32 compilation, the spirit of GNU software.
>
> To everyone but JMD: please accept my apologies for being rude, but this was
> the excess drop.
>
>
> Le Thu, Aug 22, 2002, à 08:59:47AM -0700, James Michael DuPont a écrit:
>
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites
> > Can I put the binaries on my Internet server and put the source on a
> > different Internet site? --- NO you cannot
>
> Then, sue [*], or shut up.
>
> In fact, the problem is moot: there is no binary distribution anymore.
>
> [snip the rest of perhaps right stuff but definitely NOT said the right way]
>
> Do you really want to permanently cancel the Win32 distribution? If yes,
> continue.
>
>       -- Cyrille
>
> [*] assuming you hold the copyright on a bit of the work in question. I don't
> think it is the case:
> muscat%find . -type f | grep -i "copyright" | grep -i "dupont"
> muscat%
>
> which basically leaves you the second option.
> --
> Grumpf.
>
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