Re: Interpretation of the GR
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:16:07PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> For the purposes of this discussion, I'm agnostic on that issue (even
> though I happen to agree), because it isn't really the point. The fact
> is, according to the GR, the official debian position is that you (and
> I) are wrong. Unless you're working on another GR to get that changed
> there isn't much point in discussing it in the context of the DFSG. So
> I call the interpretation mandated by the GR "generous" to distinguish
> it from "literal", which it clearly isn't.
The interpretation you say is mandated by the GR is not "generous", it's
"false". If the only rational interpretation that can be found of the
GR is that it demands a willfully false reading of the license, so be it.
--
Glenn Maynard
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