[133] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Jun 6 20:45:50 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>,
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 06 Jun 2000 20:45:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Tue, 06 Jun 2000 19:46:34 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hln0ixqrp.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> A better (though far from perfect) solution would be to write a
> non-free wrapper around the afs functions with good semantics and
> parsable output, and then to shell out to that. How sketchy is that
> with the GPL?
It wouldn't change the situation either way.
> A third solutions (which I don't personally have much of a problem
> with) is to disrespect the GPL, or try to squeak it by as "part of the
> OS" as you say above.
If we are going to say that it's OK for MIT to violate software
licenses when it's convenient, then I think we should violate those
where the violation would do the most good for those who benefit.
Publishing the source to AFS, or Windows NT, for example.
