application relicensing

Roger Larsson roger.larsson at norran.net
Wed Aug 27 22:21:15 BST 2003


On Wednesday 27 August 2003 16.09, Russell Miller wrote:
> 2.) on the issue with Neil's commits:  I am an American citizen and I found
> them to be in atrociously bad taste.  It is showing a manifest lack of
> respect for the fact that probably the majority of contributors to this
> project are not American, and that even some who are may not agree with the
> actions that their government has taken.  In short, this action was purely
> political, it was completely out of line, and if I were in David Faure's
> place, etc., Neil would have had his CVS access suspended right there. 
> Neil, however, is lucky that I am not in David's place.
>

Ohh - you think he actually mean what he wrote? I read it ironically... :-)

+		s_aboutData->addCredit("United States Army", I18N_NOOP("Preserving the 
freedom that made this software possible"));

This since USA currently is the country with least of the "freedom that made 
this software possible" - DMCA, stupid software patents, politicians bought 
by corporation(s) to fight OpenSource (OK, I do not know if that is so... 
but...)

Imagine the Chinese translation of this :-)

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
SkellefteƄ
Sweden








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