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Re: Boy Scout Open Source



 Dan Ritter wrote: 
> 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. 
> 


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