Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > Also, it’s normal that someone has a rosy sight on something they wrote. > > Note that the intent of the actual copyright owners counts > *much* more than the intent of the licence writers when > interpreting clauses. > Sure, but in many cases there is not much expression of intent, other than "I chose this license". > No, debian-legal is no body within Debian, just a random armchair > lawyer discussion list. But it may be Cc’d, sure. > Nevertheless, it is the forum where we-as-a-distribution are supposed to arrive at a rough consensus on what's OK, legally, and what is not, thus the discussion belongs there. > ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die! > which, like your "random armchair lawyer" remark, I'd regard as borderline flamebait. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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