Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- InformationWeek: "Pick Your Open Source Poison: Microsoft's Patent Claims Or GPLv3"

[rjack]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > On 2007-06-10, Lee Hollaar <hollaar@antitrust.cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > > But the thing I was thinking about if the House bill had passed was that
> > > any contribution by a government contractor (like a university research
> > > project) would be in the public domain.  How might that affect the GPL,
> > > and if it did, would it mean the loss of a great source of GPLed works?
> > Why would it affect the GPL?
> >
> > I don't see why the GPL is a special case here. The hypothetical
> > situation would be that a government contractor publishes a work
> > indicating it is licensed under license X. However a law provides
> > that this kind of work is public domain. The net result would be
> > that the license statement is void and hence irrelevant.
>
> I just wonder what is your take on the following piece of GNU wisdom 
> and NASA OSA in general.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
>
> <quote>
>
> NASA Open Source Agreement 
>
> The NASA Open Source Agreement, version 1.3, is not a free software 
> license because it includes a provision requiring changes to be your 
> “original creation”. Free software development depends on combining 
> code from third parties, and the NASA license doesn't permit this.
>
> We urge you not to use this license. In addition, if you are a United 
> States citizen, please write to NASA and call for the use of a truly 
> free software license.
>
> </quote>
>
> NASA OSA can be found here:
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/nasa1.3.php
>
> regards,
> alexander.

Using anything beside a Free Software Foundation approved license is the 
the equivalent of clubbing innocent baby seals.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070611082734557

Dealing in any form of software that allows a proprietary, non-socialist
profit motive is tantamount to committing crimes involving infanticide.

Evil. Evil. Evil.

rjack