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Re: GNU FDL 1.2 draft comment summary posted, and RFD



On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:07:01PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> How about adding a section 3d) to the GPL with something like
> 
>     d) Only distribute 100 or fewer copies in a 30 day time period.
> 
> That weakens copyleft a bit, but prevents wholesale appropriation.  Is
> this the sort of thing that you'd like?

I personally am uncomfortable with arbitrary limits in general.  That
doesn't mean I don't sometimes feel compelled to use them, but I think
we should apply them only when strategies that hew closer to our actual
philosophical intent fail.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    It's like I have a shotgun in my
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    mouth, I've got my finger on the
branden@debian.org                 |    trigger, and I like the taste of
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    the gunmetal. -- Robert Downey, Jr.

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