david@lang.hm wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, MJ Ray wrote:
david@lang.hm wrote:
what software in Ubuntu are you not allowed to modify?
Please ask on an FSF or FSFE list. It's off-topic here.
you are the one making the claim that the software shipped with Ubuntu is not allowed to be modified.
And that has nothing to do with its topicality. There is such software. In general, see http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing but an FSF or FSFE list will have people far better on the specifics.
2. as you correctly guess, firefox is not free software because of the copyright licence of some files, which is why there's icecat & co;
it's not copyright license on the files, it's thr trademark enforcement.
Apparently I'm out of date, but I don't remember a trademark problem. http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1032 says it was "due to copyright issues" although it also says it's been solved recently which is good news that I didn't know, although the devil may be in the detail.
In that case, I believe that you don't want Koha to be free software, [...]
Please don't write silly and insulting things. I want Koha to be free software, both now and in the future, which is why having (a) robust host corp(s) rather than a company sockpuppet matters so much to me. I'm disappointed that the suggestion of a Moz-Corp-style KSF-owned PTFS was cut without comment ;-) -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha