On 2014-02-03 12:42, Janne Johansson wrote:
> On 02/03/14 10:56, Peter Eriksson wrote:
>>> They would only have to have a directive that says "publish the code you run", regardless of if it is GPL or MIT/X11 or made
>>> specifically for them by code monkeys in a commercial setting. And this "rule" would go in the same place where you would put "You
>>> must use GPLv3 license" and it would work equally well to allow EU citizens to audit the code we want our Union to run.
>>
>> Not to be like this, but I think this is the problem right here. Why get stuck in a discussion about semantics when the bigger
>> issue is to get away from propritary to something better. Even if it is a little better, it is still better and a path to follow.
>
> The way I see it (as someone that probably can't fix 'the bigger issue'), it would be a shame if the code did not get published
> because someone figured "a solution" or "my solution" must implicitly be "the solution".
>
> I have zero idea on why someone could not make this stuff GPLv3, but I can certainly imagine such cases where some other license
> could have worked. If you go "GPLv3 is the only way x,y and z can happen" and what you really wanted was code to audit (as opposed
> to pushing for your own personal favourite) then any way that gets the actual running code published would actually fly.
>
> So I would prefer if people had a less narrow view in this particular case and fought for the source being published, in any way
> that would allow audits, and not limit the number of possible solutions to that particular problem.
>
> As you said, "even a little better is still better". The republishing stuff (ie, Asian countries create an AU, grabs all published
> EU code, makes local edits and don't return the code!) shouldn't be a showstopper to have us in EU getting access to the EU code
> we pay for to have running.
>
Much like it should be a show stopper for them to supply cheap labor and human lives for us in the EU to get cheap merchandise.
Yes, I agree!
-- Regards Peter Eriksson - Senior Systems Administrator Emediate a cxense company Performance Junkie www.emediate.com - www.cxense.com - http://0x2a.se/o.html _______________________________________________ http://www.foss-sthlm.se/ http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss-sthlmReceived on 2014-02-03