On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:11:56PM +0100, markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I now have a contact in the Smoothwall team who is willing to take a list of questions and follow it through, acting as a sort of firebreak for Mr Morrell's usual reaction to criticism of the project which he has put so much money into.
We may want to consider today's events also, in writing this list (which I think is a good idea). Check out the news page on smoothwall.org. To summarise:
- SmoothWall 0.9.9 is delayed until middle of September, ostensibly for language translation - SmoothWall 0.9.9b source is now available for download[1] - There is an article by Richard Morrell about the ongoing GPL situation. It's entitled "GNU put the record Straight - SmoothWall IS GPL" (I believe we've ascertained that it's not, and I don't believe any of these events change that fact - see later). I think this was Brian Youmans @ FSF Boston following up on an earlier complaint by Jason Clifford, regarding the phone home spyware in SmoothWall, not the source code availability complaint.
[1] I have downloaded the 'source'. The package weighs in at about 77k, and unpacks to about half a meg. Over 50% of that is language translation, although the installer and setup stuff appears to be there. However, the administration stuff (the web app) is gone, and that _was_ present in earlier source releases. We need to ask about what software is covered by the GPL - all that in the source package appears to be GPL, but it's not anything like the whole source to the system.
Cheers,
Alex.