[Olpc-uruguay] Violación de GPL (era Re: Uso de XO en Secundaria)

[Sebastian Silva]

Hola,
Perdón que meta la cuchara:
Interesante que este email, amablemente retransmitido por Guillermo, no 
haya
pasado moderación en sugar-devel...
Lo he remitido a la lista de SLOBs para insistir en que sí hay una 
violación
(la posición de Walter ha sido que no la hay en tanto que Sugar puede 
ejecutarse
dentro del directorio del usuario).
Quiero tratar de ayudar a que se de un diálogo útil y se tomen medidas para
subsanar esta situación.
Desde la perspectiva de la comunidad Sugar uruguaya,
qué puede hacer Sugar Labs central con respecto de esta situación?
Un comunicado / declaración oficial sería lo que yo veo más viable.
Saludos,
Sebastian
Oversight Board Member (SLOBs)
Sugar Labs

El -10/01/37 14:59, John Gilmore escribió:
>> Here in uruguay xo`s are distributed with no permission to install rpm or
>> modify udev rules, so is very important to have this rules added to work
>> with buti=E1 2.0 and nxt in a near future.
>> Regards
>> Andr=E9s
>> we can add it, but clearly it would be best if deployments or even
>> local classrooms could add new device capabilities on their own.
>> because as soon as we say "great, we're done", someone will create
>> a new USB device that kids and teachers everywhere will want to use.
> Paul, that's a great "open source" reason to ship software that users
> can revise and control.  But there's a better "free software" reason:
> the license requires it.  See:
>
>    http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html
>
> Every laptop that OLPC sells to Uruguay produces a violation of the
> GPL, i.e. a copyright infringement.  Copyright infringement is a
> serious crime and tort, with serious penalties for intentional
> infringement.  Even the sympathetic grandmas who infringe the
> copyright on a few songs are getting hit with multi-hundred-thousand
> dollar penalties, in jury trials, besides having the expense of
> defending themselves in federal court.  OLPC would be bankrupt if
> found guilty of selling hundreds of thousands of infringing copies.  I
> have never understood why OLPC sees this as a prudent risk to take,
> when the cure is simple: stop infringing; give the end-user kids
> control of the software on their laptops.  But if you insist on going
> down the lawsuit path, I'll help to make it happen.
>
> 2012 is likely to be the year that either that OLPC laptops stop going
> to Uruguay -- or the year that OLPC and the local Uruguay team change
> their systems to follow the copyright terms on the software they ship.
>
> I wrote some of the code in that laptop.  I donated it on the basis
> that it would always remain free software.  I am sick of seeing it
> turned into proprietary binaries to trick innocent kids with.  The
> OLPC organization and community has been on notice about this since at
> least 2007.  Enough is enough.
>
> 	John
>
> PS: udev is only under GPLv2, as far as I know, so this particular
> issue about plugging in USB devices is not a copyright issue, merely
> an issue of stupidity on the part of those who lock down the software
> distribution against end-user modification.  But plenty of software in
> the OLPC is under GPLv3, which *does* require that the keys and/or
> passwords needed to modify or reinstall that software be given to the
> end users of consumer goods like the OLPC.
>