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Submission + - SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

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?"

Comment Re:Is all this wireless stuff healthy? (Score 1) 315

It will be hard to produce the scientific evidence necessary to legislate some constraint by wireless and broadcast service providers who will be bombarding us with emag energy, in our homes, while we sleep... All for the cost of licenses paid to support the beauracracy of some government regulatory agency?

I look at it this way: This level of ambient energy wasn't around while life on this planet (us) was evolving, why should we assume it will be harmless? We didn't develop radio- and microwave protection the way we did melanin for the sun's energy. There's no reason to believe lifelong exposure to increased communications spectrum energy is inherently benign to humans. We're not going to drop dead, but there could be accumulated affects to living tissue.

These technologies which affect users and nonusers alike should have to demonstrate their safety before deployment, not after an infrastructure is deployed and depended on by millions of users.

There has to be nodes of safer frequencies, ones that affect living cells less than others. Keep it simple, limit the public spectrum to the frequencies least likely to kill the test rats.

...But Think of the Children!! :)

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