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Yes, and that's their right. We can argue that we don't like it, but its no different than me licensing Hanna Montana's likeness for a toothbrush I'm producing
by ShabbyDoo 17y ago
Yes, and that's their right. We can argue that we don't like it, but its no different than me licensing Hanna Montana's likeness for a toothbrush I'm producing (no, I'm not!). I'd have the right to put her pretty face on the toothbrush but not anywhere else. I understand the laws to be well established here. If you don't like it, use Ubuntu. I understand a moral argument, but pragmatic ones are of little use here.
- dhimes 17y agoNo, ShabbyDoo, it's not their right at all. It's very different if you are selling the toothbrush for profit. And I'd allow that it could be different if you were a professional room designer and licensed the poster as part of your design for a client. But them forbidding me from placing a poster on my own wall with any background paint I choose is absurd. Things only become "their right" if we weakly sit by and let it. We are allowed to control what is allowed in contracts and licenses. We can legislate that. In fact, it's our responsibility to do so. Some people have a hard time going from abstract to concrete, so the analogies in discussions like this are actually quite useful. (read: moral/pragmatic). And anyway, I roll with Fedora.