Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden

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On 2009-12-18, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
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> Hadron wrote:
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>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
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>> > In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> Didn't Alan boldly claim that the GPL was "easy to understand"?
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>> > Yes.  The GPL is very easy to understand.  It's USA copyright law which
>> > is hard.
>> >
>> > The only people who find the GPL hard are those who seek a legal means of
>> > violating it.
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>> And just about everyone that ever uses it, reads it or discusses it. I
>> find it amazing that you keep insisting it is so easy and yet we see you
>> embroiled in nitpicking over meaning time and time again. You're either
>> very thick skinned or in denial.
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> Note that even Pee Jay has admitted that
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> "a lot of people don't understand the GPL, including some lawyers"
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> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851

    So? Some lawyers aren't terribly good at contract law in general
despite this is one of those things they even cover in law school.

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