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Mambo Users Threatened

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the biting-the-hand-that-feeds dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article about a recent dispute over code in Mambo (a Free CMS). A Mr. Connolly has sent threatening emails to Mambo users over this, a move John Weathersby of OSSI was quoted as saying 'That's ... not prudent.' The dispute is over some trivial code that checks whether a story is a lead story and if so displays it across multiple columns, as it's a modification of GPL code the Mambo team maintain it must remain GPL but Mr. Connolly claims otherwise."

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  1. Re:All of this could easily have been avoided. by afd8856 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sun took a BSD and made it Solaris. Apple took a BSD and made it MacOS X. Nobody have seen the code to these improvements. Now compare that to RedHat's or IBM's or SUSE's (and other businesses) contributions to the Linux kernel.

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    I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
  2. Re:Inaccurate summary by altstadt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod -1 didn't RTFA