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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. Re:Just so everyone knows... by cjsnell · · Score: 1, Redundant


    Don't feed the trolls, please. Thank you, drive through.

  2. Re:I shouldn't have been so slack ... by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Ok,

    anyone have linus's or Alan Cox's email addresses?

    I should actualy send them each a case of beer for all that linux has done for me.

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