[Opensim-dev] [opensim-core] snowcrash's contributions

[Ryan McDougall]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes
<lopes at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> dr scofield wrote:
>
> to me this is another piece from the legal FUD department (reminiscent
> of the "money" discussions).
>
>
> It's very easy to brush difficult issues under the rug of "I don't care,
> this is ethics, not technical, hence it's FUD". You're entitled to that
> stand. Give your -1 on whatever is being proposed and stay out of the rest
> of the conversation, instead of trying to "FUD the FUD." Some of us care
> about these difficult issues. Having a co-copyright holder who releases an
> addon to opensim under a discriminatory license (in this case based on
> country, but could be based on race, gender, sexual orientation,...) is not
> something some of us can ignore. Unclear if/what we should do about it, but
> clear that this is bugging a lot of people, not just core devs, and hence it
> should be discussed not ignored.
>
> Crista

Nationality, or more to the point of the clause, political
disposition, can be changed; unlike race or gender -- which is the
kind of the point, to make a political stand in the face of potential
human catastrophe. :D

Have I mentioned that I'm not a fan of the secret mailing list? ...
Here I am feeling like a member of a community, but largely without
voice on the crucial matter of eccentric licenses(?)! :P

Cheers,