Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

On 16/09/2007, Marc Espie [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote:

quoted

We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and
we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us
instead of helping.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/

As I said in a former email, this has several glaring problems.

As far as I understand, this is a public statement, even if it predates
the issue at hand.

Please fix it in a timely manner, or take it down for now.

Most noticeably, I fail to see any credits to Reyk Floeter in the
above press release.

Moreover, back when the release was first posted at the above address,
there was no credit even to the OpenBSD project, which I found simply
outrageous!  Only after I (and possibly others) have complained to
SFLC did they append the release to give some really vague mention
that OpenHAL is based on OpenBSD's ath(4) HAL.

Eben, is this the work that you are doing in bringing the communities
together, by omitting such vital information as giving credit to the
people and projects who performed most of the work?  After all of
these mistakes, after ignoring the ethical side of the relicensing,
after failing to inform when relicensing is even legally an option,
are you seriously even surprised about the negative attention that
SFLC is getting now?  Taking a step aside, don't you agree it is
well-deserved?

http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/13/156258

C.