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Re: Why not open source? [message #172725 is a reply to message #172724]

Sun, 25 September 2005 04:16

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mac wrote on Sun, 25 September 2005 06:04

Not going to happen. I'm a fan myself of GPL software and have released several of them licensed under the General Public License. RenGuard is not one of them, for obvious reasons.

having the source code available means everyone can modify the software as they wish, and release their own versions, defeating the entire purpose of this software. There may be only one valid version at the same time, and we're the ones that are releasing it.

if you do not trust this software, use tools like regedit/regmon to see what it is actually doing on your system.. or just don't use it.

IIRC, there is a clause in the GPL that, in effect, forces patches to make their way upstream to the developers... Look Round

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		Why not open source? By: howang on Sun, 25 September 2005 03:45
		Re: Why not open source? By: mac on Sun, 25 September 2005 04:04
		Re: Why not open source? By: =HT=T-Bird on Sun, 25 September 2005 04:16
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Sun, 25 September 2005 04:36
		Re: Why not open source? By: light on Tue, 27 September 2005 01:25
		Re: Why not open source? By: Goztow on Tue, 03 January 2006 08:55
		Re: Why not open source? By: mac on Thu, 05 January 2006 06:51
		Re: Why not open source? By: Dave Mason on Sun, 25 September 2005 05:09
		Re: Why not open source? By: mac on Sun, 25 September 2005 05:52
		Re: Why not open source? By: warranto on Mon, 26 September 2005 08:40
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Tue, 27 September 2005 03:24
		Re: Why not open source? By: Sir Kane on Tue, 27 September 2005 02:36
		Re: Why not open source? By: mac on Tue, 27 September 2005 03:48
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Tue, 03 January 2006 05:31
		Re: Why not open source? By: dead6re on Tue, 27 September 2005 10:45
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Sat, 01 October 2005 23:22
		Re: Why not open source? By: Kanezor on Sun, 02 October 2005 13:16
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Tue, 03 January 2006 05:22
		Re: Why not open source? By: Kanezor on Tue, 03 January 2006 06:17
		Re: Why not open source? By: howang on Tue, 03 January 2006 10:31
		Re: Why not open source? By: Whitedragon on Sat, 01 October 2005 23:35
		Re: Why not open source? By: Ghost Assassin on Tue, 03 January 2006 08:06
		Re: Why not open source? By: Scythar on Tue, 03 January 2006 10:42
		Re: Why not open source? By: Crimson on Tue, 03 January 2006 11:53

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