Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jacquesm 5950 days ago
Fair enough, that's a misleading title. 'Lift' instead of 'Steal' or maybe 'copy' would be better.
1 comments
jrockway 5950 days ago
"Redistribute under the terms of the GFDL."

Let me guess... Linux distributions are "stealing" Firefox? Oh, there isn't some holy war against that, so it's a good thing. Right.

link
bantam 5950 days ago
Do Linux distributions take Firefox and laden it with advertisements?
link
cookiecaper 5950 days ago
Some do. Ubuntu replaces the default home page with an Ubuntu-specific search box that points to the highest bidder's search engine.

It is perfectly compliant with GPL/GFDL to take the product and fill it with ads. There is nothing wrong with doing that.

link
joeyo 5950 days ago
They'd certainly be within their rights if they did.
link
Legion 5950 days ago
And it is perfectly within everyone else's rights to frown upon it.

The liberal licensing of Free software/content does not mean every use of those freedoms is a good and positive thing. And nobody is being inconsistent by treating it as a bad thing, while still recognizing it's within one's rights to do.

link