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

[Flavio Danesse]

Lo que pasa es que este tema es recurrente en esta lista desde 2008.
Ya todo el mundo está al tanto de este tema y cada uno tiene su posición al
respecto.
Es decir, de vez en cuando alguno nuevo en la lista se entera de estas
cosas, comprende la situación, y patalea, pero para la mayoría de nosotros
esto no es un tema nuevo. Si nada pasó  en casi 4 años, no hay motivos para
pensar que pase algo ahora.




El 19 de enero de 2012 00:07, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian en somosazucar.org>escribió:

> 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<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.
>>
>>
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