On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Andrew Suffield writes: > >On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:16:06PM -0700, ivan-debian@420.am wrote: > >> The debian-legal mailing list is often "bashed" because it repreresents > >> an extreme point of view relative to Debian proper. > > > >Being interested in licensing issues is "extreme"? That's quite a > >strange thing to claim. > > And it's not what he's claiming at all, as you well know. debian-legal > currently includes a large number of people who are on the more > extreme end of the range of licensing opinions expressed within > Debian. Irrelevant. debian-legal represents only the group who are interested in licensing issues. Obviously that will include "extreme ends", because anybody who is not interested by definition cannot be such a person - if they exist anywhere, they will do so here. That's a stunningly useless observation. Classifying an entire group as being equivalent to the person in that group who you personally find most objectionable - well, that's just dumb. > But it's a great help in terms of understanding the meanings of lots > of the *legal* license terms that are bandied about. And how they > might be applied in court, with precedent. And in this case > professional training is much more important than in the others you > named IMHO. I see absolutely no justification for that opinion. It seems equally valid for all the other cases. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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