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

On 13 November 2012 12:42, edmund ronald <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>
I thought Apple modified BSD licensed stuff. That's how they get away with
it.

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