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Fink Maintainer Steps Down Due To GPL Infringment

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dirty-rotten-mac-os-x-users dept.

DShadow noted that the Fink maintainer Christoph Pfisterer has resigned largely because of GPL violations by openosx and macgimp, as well as macosx.forked.net. There's definitely some tension between the mac world and the Open Source and GPL worlds. Certain amounts of culture clash are inevitable, but hopefully great projects like this will continue, and commercial vendors will be able to play nice without alienating developers. The good news for Macheads is that fink will continue just fine.

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  1. For the best. by Enahs · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    It's pretty obvious that Cristoph is screaming "sour grapes" and doesn't fully understand the GPL.



    In his email, he mentions releasing, say, Red Hat Linux with a few changes and no mention of RH, which would be okay. Not nice, but okay.



    Can anyone point out the GPL violation, or is this another Slashdot fuckup?

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