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New I am already discussing this elsewhere
On the [link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?sss:8097:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb#b|fsb list].

[link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:8086:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb|Here] is my analysis of what this measure is intended to prevent, and why the government should be doing what this measure tries to ban.

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New One nit?
Apache (at least the main http server) is not a GPL project - more along the lines of BSD.

Aside from that, I agree that the government should be free to make modifications to GPL software and abide by the license restrictions where appropriate. However, I would favor that any projects which do not have current license restrictions - i.e. new projects - should be distributed under the looser terms of BSD.
New That was meant to tie back to something in the second point
That my arguments for government being involved in open source apply regardless of license. (In fact they can and do apply to proprietary software as well as open source.)

Incidentally according to [link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:8104:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb|http://www.crynwr.co...hbfjnaoiadbbgiidb] Congress has been so swamped by reporter's calls on this issue that many congresscritters involved are backing away from the letter and giving it a big, Oops!

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
     Move afoot to outlaw the GPL - (marlowe) - (3)
         I am already discussing this elsewhere - (ben_tilly) - (2)
             One nit? - (ChrisR) - (1)
                 That was meant to tie back to something in the second point - (ben_tilly)

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