>> Sure, it is a horrible subject: grown people should nothave sex with children
Actually, I think we could broaden that to : 'no one should have sex with anyone else *without their consent*'
I can but fully agree that pedophilia is a terrible thing, but I always feel it's sort of a consensual taboo.. Let me explain : it's so obviously wrong to such a large part of the population, that almost everyone can safely be horrified by it. But I feel that pedophilia is only one side of a broader evil, namely rape. Be it incest, pedophilia, someone jumping on someone else in a dark alley, or someone who's heard once too many that when women said 'no' they actually meant 'yes'.. All those acts, crimes actually, are equally *wrong* to me.
So, I agree that we should investigate distateful subjects, and try and investigate and question taboos.. but let's not miss the mark : fighting pedophilia alone is not enough. It'd be a good start to eradicate it, certainly.. but it'd only be a start, possibly the easier part of the iceberg to adress.
I don't see how they "got away with it".. Sure, they didn't end up in court, it all could get solved quietly, but the part of their program that was linked to GPL'ed code did get GPL'ed itself. So the requirements of the licence are now met by their product. What I see in this is, even though the GPL didn't get tested in court this time, the company did take the lawsuit seriously. The violation was noticed, they were asked to do something about it, and they complied. Maybe not as graciously as one could have hoped, since they kept what they could get away with out of GPL'ed, but well..
Now, what would have happened if no-one had noticed the use of GPL'ed code in their product.. well that's a problem with any licencing scheme, except maybe public domain stuff, not only GPL..
I suppose we'll have to trust the community to spot potential GPL violations.
All in all, it still looks "somewhat good" to me.
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Contracts need be translated as well, and information about a product/service too.
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(Art.2 in particular).
>> Sure, it is a horrible subject: grown people should nothave sex with children
Actually, I think we could broaden that to : 'no one should have sex with anyone else *without their consent*'
I can but fully agree that pedophilia is a terrible thing, but I always feel it's sort of a consensual taboo.. Let me explain : it's so obviously wrong to such a large part of the population, that almost everyone can safely be horrified by it. But I feel that pedophilia is only one side of a broader evil, namely rape. Be it incest, pedophilia, someone jumping on someone else in a dark alley, or someone who's heard once too many that when women said 'no' they actually meant 'yes'.. All those acts, crimes actually, are equally *wrong* to me.
So, I agree that we should investigate distateful subjects, and try and investigate and question taboos.. but let's not miss the mark : fighting pedophilia alone is not enough. It'd be a good start to eradicate it, certainly.. but it'd only be a start, possibly the easier part of the iceberg to adress.
I don't see how they "got away with it".. Sure, they didn't end up in court, it all could get solved quietly, but the part of their program that was linked to GPL'ed code did get GPL'ed itself. So the requirements of the licence are now met by their product. What I see in this is, even though the GPL didn't get tested in court this time, the company did take the lawsuit seriously. The violation was noticed, they were asked to do something about it, and they complied. Maybe not as graciously as one could have hoped, since they kept what they could get away with out of GPL'ed, but well.. Now, what would have happened if no-one had noticed the use of GPL'ed code in their product.. well that's a problem with any licencing scheme, except maybe public domain stuff, not only GPL.. I suppose we'll have to trust the community to spot potential GPL violations. All in all, it still looks "somewhat good" to me.