From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:29:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87immci5ps.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k16si685.fsf@nckx>
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 写道：
> zimoun 写道：
>> Other said, calling Artistic 1.0 non-free in this Bioconductor
>> case
>> is more a flavour of taste than a real legal issue.
>
> No, it's a very real legal issue. :-(
I should clarify: when the FSF calls the Artistic 1.0 licence
‘vague’, that's not an aesthetic criticism.
It means that the licence is broken and fails to do what it claims
to do: give you the licence (=freedom) to do something that would
not otherwise be allowed by copyright law. It means that you
can't prove, in court, that the licence says what you thought it
said. It's not merely ugly, it's defective and potentially
dangerous.
This always happens when programmers think they can write their
own licence. It starts with a punny name (‘artistic licence’,
‘WTFPL’, ha ha -_-) and the result is a useless buggy mess.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-19 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 15:02 Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0? zimoun
2019-07-24 21:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-25 9:58 ` zimoun
2019-07-25 12:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-19 16:38 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 17:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-19 17:29 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 20:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-19 21:18 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 17:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-19 17:29 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2019-12-19 18:04 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 17:56 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 20:24 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-19 21:40 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 9:28 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-12-20 10:47 ` zimoun
2019-12-20 14:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-20 11:55 ` Guix and Bioconductor Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-12-20 14:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-21 10:06 ` [OT] " Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-12-19 18:18 ` Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0? zimoun
2019-12-20 10:24 ` Perl modules dual licensing (was Re: Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0?) Giovanni Biscuolo
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