Freedom (Re: Most offensive thing I've seen all day)

[Jan Moren]

fre 2006-08-04 klockan 00:59 +0100 skrev Sean Hammond:
> On 8/4/06, Jan Moren <jan.moren at lucs.lu.se> wrote:
> > > Only that it wouldn't be so easy if it was Jihadbuntu, with a nice pic
> > > of the twin towers colapsing as the default wallpaper. Would it?
> >
> >
> > Quite easy - they'd be allowed to do that just like these people are
> > allowed this. You may not like it personally, but that is beside the
> > point. Ubuntu (and GPL and other free licenses) do not put a restriction
> > on who can use it beyond following the license terms. Left-wing or
> > right-wing; religious or rational; army or peace organization; chemical
> > industry or Greenpeace; Israel or Palestine; Superman or Lex Luthor -
> > all are allowed to use it freely if they follow the terms.
> 
> You probably aren't allowed to use it to do, or promote, something
> illegal though. Like blowing things up.

Do or promote to do illegal things are, well, illegal. It's not against
any OSS licence though - and doesn't need to be either, seeing as how
it's already illegal anyway.




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