On 9/7/05, Ann W. Harrison <aharrison@...> wrote:

> marius popa wrote:
>
> > Firebird could do otherwise than mysql did
> > and announce not supporting sco unix servers (os)
>
> That violates principle 5 and 6 of the Open Source Definition (q.v.
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php). The definition talks
> specifically about the license, but should apply to project policies as
> well.
>
> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
>
> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons
>
> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
>
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
> specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program
> from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Yes it's a good choice , gcc team did the same
"The GCC team has been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from GCC, as
a protest against SCO's irresponsible aggression against free software
and GNU/Linux. We have decided to take no action at this time, as we
no longer believe that SCO is a serious threat."

For more on the FSF's position regarding SCO's attacks on free
software, please read: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/sco/

original file is in gcc/README.SCO source tree

http://xrl.us/hgr5 (Link to savannah.gnu.org)

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/gcc/README.SCO?rev=1.2.10.1.8.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

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