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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. I are eat you. by Eso · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What if there were battles of biotech-organic-growing-self-reproducible-golem bots... Oh, wait, those are essentially people...

    1. Re:I are eat you. by Eso · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shoutouts to the mainframe crew, yo!

  2. propz to all #linuxwarez homies by ultrapenguin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the subject says it all.

  3. Just so everyone knows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've started DoSing the two sites in question with a hundred IRC bots for their blatant GPL violations, which will not stand. Feel free to join me!

  4. 209.242.124.241? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    209.242.124.241

  5. Fink is okay but.... by alexborges · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I feel this developer would be more embraced and protected if he sided with the linux community. I use a powerbook titanium and I used to have macosX. That is an Ugly Fucking UNIX. I now use debianppc and I have more software in my hands than macosX will ever have. Add to that the MOL project and I need not see macosX for anything in my life....

    So, my devel friend, come and devel some cool cocoa stuff so we can have a decent object framework for th gnome or kde. Lets clone macosX taskbar's ass and put it in every distro on earth. Lets help out the HURD and make the finest microkernel kernel out there. We dont need no friggin macosx, they dont even respect the ways of the community.

    Hell, the fink is about the only thing that brought real world UNIX tools (of which only gnu tools work as one wants), to that shanty ass macosx.

    Alex

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