[ubuntu-my] First Malaysian OS?

[Harisfazillah Jamel]

Dear all,

All the issues have highlighted to them and they do follow our
discussion in OSDC.my mailing list and I believe in this list also.
They do acknowledge the issues that our friends (me, fazli,
Sharuzzaman, Redzuan and others) highlight in mailing list like
OSDC.my and Ubuntu-my and they openly willing to learn from community.

I believe, they problem start with the nature of local OSS community
that we don't have one single official reference community or
organisation that they can refer and get advice how they should go
about it. We really put them in the dark who to refer and what step
need to be taken. Tiba-tiba aje kita sudah fire mereka.

To be fair, we need to open up and lets them explain. If  in our
opinions they do its wrongly lets us guide and advice them. By doing
offensive remarks, its will be negative presumptive to us the OSS
community and we may hinder them to progress in correct way.

OSS licenses need laywer that can understand it correctly and advice
them and us, how this should work. In Malaysia, we don't have that
many that can advice us. We need a proven case in Malaysia to get this
working in protecting the OSS in Malaysia.

Next steps :-

A Inter Distros workshop will be held on 26 March 2011 at
HackerspaceKL. I have invite them verbally and will do so with email.

Myself in contact with their lawyer to improved the understanding of
the OSS license and to know what they understand about OSS license.
Myself not a lawyer and GPL can be understand in many ways.

This is a start, lets we work together as community to guide them.
This will be benchmark for us how to work with businesses and
Government agencies

Thank you.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM, starconsultancy
<f.van.der.star at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As I was you I would not make a great issue out of this!
>
> I think this will not  B O O M  Malaysia.
>
> To my perspective for (forking, (customized) redistributing)) GPL-software
> no need to refer
> to copywriting. But.......maybe I am wrong.
>
> Myself I use SQL-Ledger on website and in this case it is obligatory I
> mention the source
> and its related website.
>
> Actually I see now only positive sides of this. It is moving in Malaysia and
> that is important!!
>
> So I go to kopi tam and relax.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Frans van der Star
>