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Re: Boy Scout Open Source



 On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:55:23PM -0400, Don Levey wrote: 
> So here's the question, then: 
> Do the Boy Scouts' exclusive policies violate the spirit of F/OSS, even 
> if not the letter of the "rules"?  Or does the F/OSS community, by and 
> large, hold a neutral policy if the person/group is otherwise behaving 
> "appropriately" within the realm of software/technology? 

I don't think that there's a single F/OSS community, myself, so 
it's difficult to say what the spirit or the rules are. 

What's against the rules? Violating license terms. Trying to restrict 
other people's freedoms. "Extend and embrace". Lying. Apart from 
that, I'm not sure there's anything we can all agree on. 

-dsr- 

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