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Re: GPL traitor !
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
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Thu, 14 May 2009 15:14:14 +0000 (UTC) |
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In gnu.misc.discuss JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:
> On 2009-05-14, Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's funny. You're still talking about. What happened to Alan's claim
>> that the GPL was really easy to understand?
> The GPL is pretty simple.
> Plenty of people like to try and weasel out of it though.
> The only really interesting issue is what a derivative work is. The
> rest is simply a matter of very mundane copyright law. This is also
> something else that people try to turn into something that's more complex
> than it really is.
And that is what's interesting here. "Hadron" hasn't identified his
interest in the GPL, despite me asking him at least once. What is he? A
shill for some company which has an interest in portraying the GPL as
complicated and difficult? An ex-SCO person, even? Or are we to believe
he is completely disinterested in the GPL, and just posts here because he
finds the debate so intellectually stimulating? ;-(
Come on, Hadron, tell us! You don't need to disclose your full name,
just say what you do, and what sort of company/organisation you're doing
it for.
> You can replace the GPL with any other license or EULA or even straight
> copyright law and end up with the same "problem".
> Courts exist because most people aren't honorable enough for just a
> simple handshake.
Actually, I don't think that's true. I think most people will honour not
just the "letter" of a handshake, but the spirit of it too. It's just
the minority who won't are nevertheless too numerous to ignore.
--
Alan Mackenize (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: GPL traitor !, (continued)
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hadron, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, JEDIDIAH, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hadron, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, JEDIDIAH, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, chrisv, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, JEDIDIAH, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15