Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes:
>> Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code
>> repository becoming "tainted" with uncontrolled or ill-considered GPL
>> obligations.
>
> If the legal department is that incompetent it's about time they got
> replaced by more competent people...

I think in many cases, the issue is not really an "incompetent" legal
department per se, but a culture of risk-avoidance combined with a
legal department that doesn't really gain much either way and
incompetent high-level management (in the sense that they don't spend
a lot of time listening to those in the trenches).

And sometimes things are rather more sinister (e.g. Apple's crusade
against the GPL)...

-miles

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