Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New software synthesizer for Linux (free under GPL v. 2)
From: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:43:26 EEST
Hi,
mprims_AT_skynet.be hat gesagt: // mprims_AT_skynet.be wrote:
> "If you want to use this program to make music that is against God and
> Jesus (like HeavyMetal, NewAge,..) STOP and think that you'll be judged
> someday by God Himself for causing many people to loose the Salvation and
> go to hell. This will happen, no matter if you'll use my program, else's
> program or anything else against Jesus's name.
> I wish to know that my work will be used to praise the name of Jesus."
>
> Could you be a bit more specific about the genres being against God and
> Jesus? I wouldn't want to end up in hell.
>
> And isn't this in contradiction with the GPL?
Maybe: isn't Stallmann a communist? Ah no, he's libertarian (is this
word a correct translation of "libertär" in German?), so what the h...
Now, seriously: Obviously this is not against the GPL, because it
doesn't hinder you in any way to use the software for devilish
purposes or give it away to a heavy metal freak, it just wants you to
think about, what you're doing by this.
If you think, that you don't care, that should be sufficient and you
aren't doing anything against the law (at least not in this world...)
ciao
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