Re: [Gnewsense-dev] bug #39671: xxkb: fully non-free

[arnuld uttre]

> On 9/5/14, Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> It rarely (if ever) happens that someone who released their code under
> the Artistic License 1.0 does not agree to relicense it under AL 2.0.
> ...SNIP ..

Developer has changed its license to 2.0 version. I have downloaded
the latest source from here and chegked myself:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xxkb/



> Listen to Gervase Markham's "Licensing In The Trenches" talk [2] (00:10
> - 00:16) for a good story about relicensing.

One hell of an information there. I cut the relevant port and sent it
to my friend over whatsapp :)

Came to know another shocking thing when I compiled IceCat 17.0 ,
found LibreJS add on installed by default. Proprietary Code added to
my browser dynamically , OMG, new level of software control. And half
of the sites I was visiting on regular basis had such control and I
was not even aware , especially when I called myself an advanced
GNU/Liux user who was using Arch since 2012.

Give me more links on such amazing stuff.



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