[mythtv] RE: [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:24:53PM +0200, Andreas Sahlbach wrote:

> 1) I'm feeling not very well with the reactions of Isaac. Saw this before
> with the wiki-project for myhttv. I have the feeling that some people
> don¹t really think about the consequences when they put their project
> under GPL. Of course project owner have their own opinions about their
> "babies".  But they have to react a bit more neutral. Putting the project
> under GPL means that the project is given to the community. If they can't
> handle this they shouldn't have made it open source. Examples for such
> projects that suffer about bad "leaders": Xfree or PhpNuke.

Software licensing determines what you may legally do with a piece of
software.  It does not in any way regulate the author's opinions or their
expression.

> I appreciate the hard work and the time people and especially Isaac put
> into this project. This is one of the most useful Linux projects I've ever
> seen.  But GPL is GPL and censorship is censorship. Please be
> consequent...

To even mention censorship in this context is absurd.

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 - mdz