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Submission + - SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

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Ashley Gittins

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:07AM

Ashley Gittins writes: "Users of the popular accounting package SQL-Ledger are being kept in the dark about a recent license change. Two weeks ago a new version of the software was released but along with it came the silent change of license from GPLv2 to the "SQL-Ledger Open Source License" — presumably in an effort to prevent future forks like LedgerSMB. As it turns out, the author is making deliberate attempts to prevent the community from finding out about the license change. All posts to the SQL-Ledger mailing lists asking about the license change are being censored and direct questions to the author are going unanswered. This behaviour is not a first for this particular project, and is part of the reason for the original LedgerSMB fork. So, does a project maintainer have an ethical obligation to notify his or her community of a license change? What about a legal obligation?"

Journal Journal: LedgerSMB 1.2 released, SQL-Ledger changes licenses

Journal by einhverfr on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:13PM

SQL-Ledger changed its license away from the GPL to a license that many of us feel meets neither the FSF's definition of Free Software nor the OSI's definition of Open Source. Perhaps the reason is that DWS is afraid of the competition.

Comment Now to get the Photo ID bill passed (Score 1) 197

by dhartman on Saturday November 12, 2005 @02:44AM (#14014235) Attached to: WI Assembly OKs Voting Paper Trail

Three times Governor Doyle vetoed the requirement for a photo ID. The fiasco in Milwaukee wasn't enough. This idiot Gov'nor won't allow us to validate the people who are voting! Currently the state allows same day registration. You can walk up to the voting booth (even if you don't have an ID) and register to vote. All you need is someone else there to "vouch" for you. ...It's corruption at the highest level. Make people prove who they are if they want to vote!

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