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Ryan McDougall wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lopes@ics.uci.edu"><lopes@ics.uci.edu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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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
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i'd like to add that this has nothing to do with OpenSim per se. the
"eccentric license" referred to relates to a third party component.<br>
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cheers,<br>
DrS/dirk<br>
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