New subject: Pissoff hotlix

27 Jun 2005


      On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:43:26PM +0200,
KJKHyperion wrote:
...
Quandary wrote:
...
And that's my point exactly -- you'd need a lawyer
to interpret that, and ultimately it's the judge
who makes the final decision
nope. In these matters, the copyright holder
basically owns your ass. We can revoke all rights to
anyone we please.
That depends on the jurisdiction, which is another
big whole mess. No one person owns the copyright,
here, and there are contributors in lots of
countries. So... which court would this even
be tried in? Whose laws apply?
We don't have a revokation clause in the license;
does this mean it's revokable? Non-revokable? Again,
you need a lawyer and *some* semblance of
jurisdiction before you can even begin to start
untangling this mess.
...
Copyleft is just good  manners, copyright is the
law. Remember this already happened: a fork of 
OpenBSD was killed by license termination in
response to copyright  misrepresentation - and, boy,
does it take a special brand of stupidity to manage
to violate a BSD license
1) links, please.
2) Copyleft is law, too -- since it's based directly
   on copyright. Some licenses leverage that legal
   ability (GPL), some don't (BSD).
...
That said, the Hostilix people have no shame and no
fear; they are well-known copyright violators (their
WinuxOS was a repackaged Windows 2000, wasting
SourceForge's bandwidth too) and are doing their
best to alienate us; they are a bunch of loser punk
posers who embarass the whole OS-development scene.
Let them get away with it, they are do-no-good hacks
and nothing can punish them worse than simply
existing. Hostilix will die naturally from the
complete lack of any form of skill on the part of
the pathetic clowns who conceived it
Agreed.
-- Travis
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