On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:21:05AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:54:15PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > It fails the dissident test. The dissidents would not be able to > > exchange copies of the covered work in encrypted emails (which they > > might have every reason to want to, if the work contains information > > that the secret police does not want people to know). > > Hmm, good point. I think I at some point got in my mind what I thought they > were trying to do, and confused it with what they actually do. Stop thinking about what the FSF is *trying* to do. Read the text of the license as written and consider its implications. It will not always be the FSF enforcing the terms of this license. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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