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Google Code già da anni segue la legge USA a questo riguardo (e non si
capisce bene perché sia stato salutato con grande giubilo il recente
"rifiuto" di collaborare alla censura cinese).
Come dire: le licenze libere aiutano, ma non bastano. Mi domando se
tecnicamente SourceForge non stia (come minimo) violando la licenza di
tutto il codice sotto GNU GPL, in riferimento all'articolo 12 (v3) o 7
(v2).
Ciao,
steko
P.S. no, non è off-topic
--
Stefano Costa
http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology