Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

Richard,

 With all due respect, I am not sure of the legality of jailbreaking vs.
DCMA in the US; nor am I sure of the legality of providing tools to
jailbreak. Worse yet, the arrival of electronic wallets supplies an
excellent pretext for strongly criminalizing jailbreaking, and AppStore
distribution is now becoming the norm also for Mac software, extending this
model from iOS to the personal computer industry.

I fear that free software has no place in the Apple world. It is
interesting that Apple are allowed to get away with this while relying on
so many GPLed and free tools in their products, starting with the Mach
kernel, the GNU utilities, and of course gcc itself.

As all Apple software is based on gcc, a personal protest by you against
Apple's practices would probably be quite effective - how come you aren't
doing something?  This thread started with worries about restrictive Xcode
licenses, which essentially translates for us to restrictive gcc licenses.

E


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apple's app store does not allow GPL-covered software, so people will
> need to jailbreak to install our software.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
>
>

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