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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. What a jerk. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    From reading the stuff he posted, chrisp sounds like an immature asshole. He and Mosfet would get along well.

  2. Re:he needs to de-stress by dEaTh_ChUrCh · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a bunch of girls, oooooohhhh hark at me, look what I did and you didn't tell everyone, get a life you sad wankers.

    While your fighting in the sandbox the rest of the world will be waiting for some real software (Photoshop) to come out, ah the joys of real software development.