On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:53:36 -0700
Linda Walsh
Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
What's with the flamebait subject line? By "flaunting" you accuse people of intentionally disregarding GPL, taking a willful action to go against GPL. Do you see anything published anywhere where such intention is declared? --- I have stated before that by relying on the "osc" and "OBS", are not good methods of ensuring GPL compliance. In 11.4, it was shown that osc scripts were broken and would not create home dirs or projects.
Then it was suggested, I rely on OBS and let the 'vendor' build my binaries -- again -- a violation of the GPL. This was pointed out a year ago when I upgraded to 11.4.
In upgrading to 12.1, I'm running into worse compatibility problems -- I can no longer download tars for packages from the internet, and run "configure" and Make and expect it to work on a openSUSE system.
I complained about these developments a year ago and the result was that compliance was too difficult -- that only non-GPL compliant osc and OBS were supported.
With 12.1, not only were problems in 11.4 NOT fixed and not only was the ability to build improved, but it got worse. I consider that flaunting.
They may have not put advertisements in the national newspapers, but those who violate the GPL rarely do. They simply justify proprietary needs to or create 'maker-owned' permissions or resources to generate their product. This allows them to track and be gatekeepers to generating the source. That's not GPL compliance. And, as I said, it's gotten worse in 12.1.
You can call it flamebait. I'm hoping it might get the attention of people willing to make sure it changes rather than it becoming worse as it has over the past couple of years.
+1 (+10) Tom -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.4, FF 13.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org